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Believing the primary election
coming at a time when all farmers
and ranchers were busy with their
work and with only about
one-third of the votes of the coun
ty polled , John Tucker receiving
only 224 votes for county attorney
and that these 224 voters have no
right to say for the whole county
who shall be county attorney , a
committee of citizens of Cherry
county was organized , and at their
earnest solicitation Robert G.
Easley has consented to run for
county-attorney.
This committee has charged
John M. Tucker with incompet-
, ency , immorality and dishonesty ,
and in support of their assertions ,
; published in THE VALENTINE
DEMOCRAT and Cody Cow Boy
| certain articles to" prove their as-
I sertions. One article in part'cu-
[ lar seems to have stirred up the
? gang very much the article about
fines.
fines.We
We published the following cer
tificate from the county treasurer
of Cherry county :
Valentine , Neb. , Oct. 21 , 1908.
This is to certify that the fol
lowing fines assessed by the dis
trict court of Cherry county have
not been paid into this office , this
being the office where all the mon
ey for all fines must be paid in
order to be distributed to the
school districts : j
Fine of John G. Stetter , as-1
eessed at spring term of court ,
1906 , § 300.
Fine of Harry Hilsinger , as
sessed at spring term of court ,
1906 , § 300.
Fine of J. B. Hull , assessed at
spring term of court , 1908 * , § 100.
Fine of James Casler , assessed
at spring term of court , 1908 ,
§ 100.
100.Seal ( ) W. AIBISTKONO ,
Treasurer.
We might say here that W. D.
/ Armstrong has asked the clerk of
the court and county at
torney about these fines more
than once in the last year , he wish-
u ing to have them to distribute
I among the school districts , but
could only get an indifferent
answer , they sayin ; in a general
way/that some of them were paid
and Andrew Morrisscy had some
of them and that some of them
were not paid.
And now comes F. A. Cumbow :
X. B. The Hull j
at 9 o'clock today ( Wednesd
in his circular- letter dated Get.
20 , 1908 , and says : "The county
attorney's responsibility , duties
and statutory powers in the matter
of fines , ceases just as soon as the
court assesses the fine and the
same is made of record by journal
entry. " In making this statement
Mr. Cumbow is false and attempt
ing to deceive , as in most of his
! other published statements.
We quote the following from
the statutes of Nebraska Criminal
Code , section 538 , page 2056 , of
compiled statutes of Nebraska ,
1907 :
"In any case of indictment for
felony , where the defendant shall
be convicted it shall be the duty
of the prosecuting attorney , clerk
of the court and sheriff of thei
county to use all lawful means
wiihin the soope of their respect
ive powers if need be , for the col
lection of the costs from the de
fendant and the fine also if any j j
shall have been adjudged against j ii i
i
him. " The powers of the county | j
attorney are to call on the clerk of ' j .
court for an execution , the clerk's1
powers are to issue an execution '
and the sheriff's powers are to i j
serve the execution when given j j
to him.
The statutes quoted above , prove
Cun bo'.v's statement false. W.
D. Armstrong has been trying
for more than a year to locate the' '
money for these fines , get it into j
the treasury of the county and
distribute it among the school dis
tricts where it belongs , but so far
has been unable to find it. It may
be that we will get at something
now.
now.And
And now comes J. T. Keeley
with a certificate in Cumbow's let
ter dated Oct. 20 , 1908 , as follows :
Valentine , Neb. . Oct. 2-1 , 1908.
1 , J. T. Keeley , clerk of the
district court of Cherry county ,
Nebraska , do hereby Icertify that }
the following fines arid costs have
been paid in full into my office on j
the dates mentioned :
Fine of J. G. Stetter , § 300 , paid j
April 5 , 1907. Costs in same case
paid April 5 , 1907.
Costs in llilsinger case. § 66.47 ,
paid April 5 , 1907.
Fine of J. B/Iiull , ' § 100 , paid
August 24 , 190S.
Fine of James Casler , § 100 , paid
August 211908. .
? aid ( Jiisler fines and costs , an
ay ) . , October 28 , 1908.
Costs in both cases , $144.95 ,
paid August 24 , 1908.
[ SEAL ] J. T. KEELEY ,
Clerk of the district court. -
Mr. Cumbow also states that in
the Hilsinger case the bondsmen
have been given an opportunity to
get the money which they have
! done short of a few dollars. I
I presume this is true , I KNOW
| that the schools of the county have
| not got it.
! In regard to ? Jr. Keeley's case
! we quote from the statutes of Ne
braska , Criminal Code , section
534 , page 2055 , of compiled stat
utes of Nebraska for 190T : k'Ev
ery magistrate or clerk of court ,
upon receiving any money on ac
count of forfeited recognizances ,
fines or costs , accruing or due to
the county or state , shall pay the
same to the treasurer of the prop
er county within ten days from
! the time of receiving the same. "
As he certifies he has had § 300
in fines and § 132.95 in costs in his
office for more than eighteen
months , and § 200 in fines and
§ 144.95 in costs in his office for
two months , wo , as taxpayers ,
would like to know why in the
name of all that is right , he does
not turn this money into the coun
ty treasury as the statute quoted
above clearly says he shall within
ten days.
Let us look and see who they
are that are straining every nervy
to elect Tucker county attorney.
We find they are the rrien who
have this county money in their
charge unlawfully , including the
nne who Cumhnw says "has the
Hilsinger ( me and costs short of a
few dollarWe can see only
ORP reason Cumbow has for sup
porting Tucker and that is , he
hopes to be elected clerk of the
county court next year and be
thinks there might be some of this
money in the office at that time
for him to use , and no doubt there
will be if Tucker is elected. They
know that if Easley is elected they
will be made to disgorge.
Cumbow says " 'more money has
been collected in fines under Mr.
Tucker's administration than was
ever paid into the clerk of the
district court in a like period be
fore. "
10 anting to $3MM , were pai
Let us see what Mr. Tucker had
to do with these fines. In the
cases where Stetter and Hilsinger
were fined § 600 , Tucker absolute
ly refused to summons necessary
witnesses to successfully prose
cute the cases , and on account of
his utter indifference in the cases
arid willingness to hinder their
prosecution , the people making
the complaints were compelled to
hire a lawyer and they did hire
W. W. Wood of llushville to
prosecute the cases and brought
them to successful issue. The
county commissioners afterwards
paying Attorney Wood § 50 for his
work which came out of your
pockets , taxpayers , and all this
time Tucker was drawing his sal
ary as county attorney to do this
very work.
During the agitation of prose
cuting Hull and Casler for selling
booze at Brownlee without a li
cense , the sheriff started south
and we wore informed Tuck
er's voice was heard over the
phone giving Hull the warning
word as to what was in the air ,
and now he wants to claim the
credit for bringing these fines into
the county and there are two of
the fines that the county treasurer
has not received yet.
Now just a word on the political
side of the question. Judge Wal-
cott as chairman of the republican
party refuses to sign Cumbow's
articles , as he has too much re
spect for truth and decency. The
republican paper at Cody , The
Cow Boy , so far has not printed
them , but the editor says he will
support Tucker personally but
makes a very wry face in his pa
per while swallowing the bitter
dose. Cumbow takes his stuff to
the Valentine Republican to be
printed , a paper that bolted the re
publican ticket two years ago and
did all in his power to defeat Alfred
Morris , republican candidate for
county commissioner , one of the
best commissioners the county ever
had.
had.You
You have heard of the "Valentine
ring. " Bead the description above
of the men who are holding illegally
this money belonging to Cherry
county and you have a very good
picture of the "ring. "
H. DAILEY , Chairman.
W. D. ARMSTRONG , Secretary.
Dated October 27 , 1908.
d into the treasurer's office
A. M. Morrissey Writes on " "
ed "By order of |
Committee.
democratic committee. This article democratic county committee. I
the County Attorney = There was nothing to indicate what' ' was simply a tirade against republican denied authorship , and denied re
ship and Pays His committee , but as the article dealt lican candidate for county attor sponsibility on behalf of the demo
Respects to Mr. with the local campaign , and was ney. The secretary of the repub cratic committee- And , incidential-
ArmstroEig. published in a democratic paper , lican county committee called on ly , I expressed my opinion of the
In ihe Democrat of the loth some-pcople might have been mis me Lo know if I had written the men who were ashamed to sign their
inst. the re appeared an trtide sign led into believing that it was the article or if it errinated from the own letter. This seems to have
offended these righteous gentle
men , and , in the Democrat of the
22nd inst. they publish a new at
tack on Mr. Tucker and criticise
me for giving expression to the
contempt which the whole com
munity felt.
I have insisted all the fall that
the democratic organization was
not interested in the fight for
county attorney , and I again re
peat it. Mr. Tucker is the regu
lar republican candidate. Mr. Eas
ley was a candidate for the repub
lican nomination and was defeated
and is now running by petition , hut
he is just as much a republican as
is Mr. Tucker. The democratic or
ganization has nothing to gain by
the election of either. As citizens ,
of course , democrats will vote their
choice between the two and I have
never sought to influence the action
of anyone on this office. I had the
right , however , to make it plain that
this self appointed committee on
public safety is not the democratic
committee and is not acting in its
behalf.
The democrats never conduct a
campaign of slander and falsehood.
Finding that they could not mas-
quarade as the democratic com
mittee , in their second article , they
make known their indentity , and it is
signed W.D. Armstrong , Secretary ,
and H. Dailey , Chairman. In this
they publish a certificate , which Mr.
Armstrong makes for himself , show
ing that certain fines have not been
paid into his office and calculated
to leave the impression in the mind
of the public that they have not been
paid at all , or if so , that the county
attorney has the money. The fines
and costs , with one exception , were
paid to the Clerk of the District
Court , long ago , and in the case
where the fine is not paid a good
bond is on file. The County Attor
ney never handled a dollar of this
nionej' , and this committee knew it.
The money 'was paid to the proper
office , and if Mr. Armstorng was as
anxious to serve tne public as he is
to further his own political ambitions - *
bitions , he would have stepped across
the hall and got this money from
the clerk and put it in the school
fund where it belongs. While these
men are posing as great moral
champions , they publish a state
ment in regard to the certificate
which Mr. Easley filed when he be-
cam.3 a candidate for the nomina
tion'for county attorney , and pre
tend to quote it , hut in making their
quotation they omit the important
word and change the meaning. Is
this the act of men who are likely
to guide the public aright ? If they
are so bold as to rnisrepresnt mat-
teis that are of public record are
they notlikely to misrepresent mat
ters that are not of record ?
Now , Mr. Armstrong , you prate
about morals , but , after you were
elected treasurer qf this county ,
you engaged in a card game in one
of the local saloons and got into a
dispute with a Negro soldier over
ten cents. Before you talk of other
men's morals , permit me fo suggest
that you remove the beam from
your own eye.
A. M. MORRK6EY.
From # ie Center of TL ings
Lincoln , Neb. , Oct. 28. ( r ul
Correspondence. ) A feel mt" ' J' ;
solute confidence in the ekcM.n of
Bryan pervades thebreastof , ; the
men who haveeen intitf atelyjcon-
nected with the management of his
campaign. This confidence is born ,
'of the thorough unification of the
democratic party , the dissensions in
1 the republican party , the magnm-
cent campaign nf Bryan , the "me to
ec-ho of a campaign made by I aft
the rallying of ihe workmgmen to
Bryan , the popular demand for a
! revision downward of the tariff , the
' explosion of the old theory of panics
coming only under democratic rule
and a thousand and one other things
that presage the triumph of the prin
ciples espoused by Bryan.
Personal letters and public state
ments from leading democrats who
sire in a position to know every phase
of the situation all go to show that
Bryan's election is assured.
j In many respects this has been the
most unique campaign in the his-
j tory of American politics. On the
'
one hand is a candidate what was not
the choice of the rank and file of his
party , but a selection foisted upon
them by a president who seeks to en
force the law of entail and , impress
ed federal offlice holders to help ea- \
force his will. On the other hand >
is a candidate who was unanimous
ly nominated by the. rank jmd file of
his party ; a man 'Hvfio n T'nothmg
to offer save his own unstained re
cord , his ability , his honesty , his
sincerity , his patriotism" and his Jove
of popular rights. On the one hand
a candidate backed by the trusts and
syndicates and supported by a presi
dent who has loudly boasted of his
opposition to those same trusts and
syndicates. On the other hand a
candidate who has fought snecial
privilege , who offers an adequate
remedy for present injustice. On
the one hand a man who says an
appeal for the right of trial by jury '
is "the most insidious attack ever
made upon the integrity of the
courts" On the other hand a man
who says that an honest workingman -
man should not be denied a right
guaranteed the most confirmed crim
inal.
There has been little of the spec
tacular in this campaign unless
the tremendous ovations tendered
Bryan everywhere may be called
spectacular. The people are not
ranking much noise , which may be
taken as an indication that they are
"keeping up a de'il o' thinkinV
But there is something doing the T
last weekof the campaign. The rail
roads are threatening to reduce wages
if Bryan is elected. Manufacturers
who employ the profits of an iniquit
ous tariff threaten to close their fac
tories if Taft is defeated "Calamity
mails' ' loud and long descend from
the lips of tariff barons , political
bankers and trust beneficiaries who
see the signs of Bryan's triumph.
Everything that will coerce , brow
beat and club workingmen iuto voting
ing for Taft is being brought into
use. Millions have been poured in
to the republican slush fund during
the last ten days. Every cabinet
officer is on the stump in an effort
to stem the Bryan tide. Eoosevelfc
is working like a
1 ward politician , and working hand
in glove with the interests that he
has claimed along to be fighting to
the finish. But despite it all the
tide is still running Bryan ward , and
a victory for the people is in sight.
In the closing days of last year
President JRoosevelt hailed Morgon ,
Perkins , Schwab and their coterie as
"public benefactors" and "saviors of
the national credit" because they
came forward and put up § 35,000,000
in cash to help tide over the Boose-
velt panic. " It now develops that
in so cloin- Morgan , Schwab , Perkins ,
et al only made a little profit of
about 1,500 percent on their bene- \
faction. Before putting up the
money they made it a conditionthat-
they should have in return a con
trolling interest in the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Co. , the steel trust's
only competitor. President Roosevelt
velt admits that he agreed to pre
vent the consolidators from being
prosecuted under the anti-trust law ,
Now it transpires that for this § 35- ,
000,000 the steel trust gang secured
possession of a property worth up
wards of § 750,000,000 , and at the
same time wiped out the steel trust's
only competitor. Of course the
whole gang is for Taft and is con
tributing liberally to the g. o. p.
campaign fund.
MILL PRICES FOR FEED ,
PerCwt. Per Ton.
Bran , sacked.1 16 $21 QO
Shorts , sacked 1 25 24 00
Corn , sacked 1 55 30 00 V
Oats , sacked
1 go 31 00'
Chop Corn , sacked 1 60 31 00
Chop Feed , sacked 1 60 * 3100