Conservative *
111 1898 William
SENATOR ALLEN.
V. Allou , who had
been , alternately , a candidate for office
as a republican and as a democrat , be
came a candidate for the United States
senate as a populist. Ho personally
made an oratorical tour of the state in
his own interest. A special Allen com
mittee announced that the ordinary
state populist committee could hardly be
entrusted with the election of members
of the legislature when the fate of a
great statesman like Allen depended en
tirely upon getting a majority in that
body in favor of the money fallacies and
the government ownership of railroads.
In harmony with the proclamation by
his own committee , Orator Allen did
then thoroughly pturap the state for the
legislative tickets which the populist
combine had nominated for the avowed
purpose of sending him again to the
United States senate. He ardently advo
cated the free coinage of silver in car
load lots at the ratio of sixteen to one.
He vehemently denounced the issuance
of any evidence of a United States
m debt in the form of a bond either in
m peace or war. He favored with fervid
energy at the same time the purchase
for spot cash at a cost of about eleven
&
& billions of dollars , all of the railroads in
the United States , the same to be man
aged and operated by the government.
He denounced the republican party as
extravagant and corrupt and pronounced
the democratic party no better. Politi
cal and personal purity was so innate
and precious to Senator Allen that he
had apostacised from and renounced
both.
both.He
He was out then , especially and par
ticularly , to reelect William Vincent
Allen to the senate of the United States.
But after his powerful personal canvass ,
with no other senatorial aspirant before
the people , and with all the glamour and
glory of his then recent social and
senatorial triumphs at Washington de
corating him with a halo , the people of
Nebraska elected a legislature with a
republican majority of sixteen or more.
They did not endorse Allen's senatorial
career. They even failed to show pride
in him as an illustration of the value of
personal character , and evinced no desire
sire to make him the standard of the
virtues and amenities of a temperate
and useful life. In fact after impor
tunate pleading by Allen in person , in
nearly every county in the state , Ne
braska calmly denied itself the privilege
k - of being represented by him in the
senate a second term.
The untimely and lamentable death of
Senator Hayward whom the legislature
had selected United
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ted States senator
instead of AlleUj afforded , however ,
Governor Poynter an opportunity to
show that executive actions are in this
state not directed by the people , but that
they are entirely under the control of
a boss. Therefore , inspired by subser-
vioncy to the Boss Croker of Nebraska ,
who happened to be at Austin , Texas ,
ho wired that autocrat to know his
pleasure. Ho soon received a reply that
the Allen variety of statesmanship more
flavored with turncoatism , and highly
spiced with moral habits of temperance
and more like Goebol of Kentucky ,
ould alone logically represent Nebraska
populism proper. Thus Death , Poynter
and the Nebraska Croker , sojourning
at Austin , Texas , made Allen senator on
December 18th , lucky number 1899 ,
in spite of his direct repudiation by the
voters of the state on November 7th ,
1898.
1898.Gilbert
Gilbert M. Hitchcock is an accom
plished and scholarly gentleman. He is
, , , . , a native of Ne-
Tnlk of the Defeated. , . _ _ .
braska. His an
cestry on both his father's and mother's
side is one to be proud of , and there is
none better in America. Personally Mr.
Hitchcock is and always has been a
decent , sober , public ppirited citizen of
Omaha , and among the best and most
intelligent business men of that muni
cipality he has always been regarded
with esteem. Therefore , with a unan
imity peculiar to the denizens of thafc
thrifty metropolis , Mr. Hitchcock was
very generally supported for appointment - ,
ment to the vacant senatorship. But
Governor Poyuter took his inspiration
and commands from Austin , Texas , and
not from Omaha.
Thus Mr. Hitchcock , who has expend
ed more time and more money to exploit
the statesmanship of "the boss" than
any and all other members of the popu
list or fusion party in Nebraska , has
been , with massive ingratitude , ignored
and defeated. His paper , the World-
Herald , has been for years the acknowl
edged organ of fusion in this state and ,
while not advertising many other patent
nostrums , has always proclaimed six
teen to one and Bryauarchy the only
compound panacea warranted to cure
every political ill known to statecraft.
Early and late , day in and day out , for
years Mr. Hitchcock has been the herald
of and the world for Bryanarchy.
Neither time nor money has been spared
to advance the interests of his'co-editor ,
his idol , his fetish. And now , when re
ward could come to Mr. Hitchcock , the
arm he had made strong struck it from
his grasp.
But the presidential nomination by
the national populist convention at
St. Louis was a .sight . draft in favor of
Allen which , pressed for payment , drove
gratitude , all sense of honor and obliga
tion from the mind of "the boss , " made
up as it is on the ratio of sixteen parts
of egoism to one part of altruism.
Hence the order to appoint Allen the
only man who had been in a recent
election declared emphatically not the
choice of the voters the only candidate
who , without a competitor in the race
for the senate , had been rejected for that
place by a full vote of the electors of
Nebraska in 1898.
Mr. Hitchcock did not expect this
stealthy stab from his cherished friend
, , , , , , sojourning temper-
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arily in Texas , and
; herefore he issued this card :
"To the many earnest friends who so
generously and enthusiastically support
ed me in my recent candidacy for the sen
atorial appointment at the hands of the
governor , I herewith tender niy thanks.
I cannot honestly deny that I have
been deeply disappointed , and I feel
most keenly the sting of ingratitude ;
but above all I have been deeply moved
by the unexpected and almost unani
mous support of the people of Douglas
county and the generous endorsement of
representative men in all parts of Ne
braska.
GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK. "
THE CONSERVATIVE ventures the
opinion that whoever expected gratitude
from the source to which Mr. Hicchcock
evidently alludes would look for good
fishing among the sands of the desert of'
Sahara , search for oysters in the Missouri
river and expect champagne frappe to
bo served to thirsty sinners insheol as an
every-day beverage.
Peril quod fads ingrate is a proverb in
Latin which holds good in English :
What you do for an ungrateful man is
thrown away.
AY.Answering many
ARBOR I > AY.
questions and correspondents -
respondents THE CONSERVATIVE de
clares : Arbor Day , the phrase , the
anniversary and its proclaimed purpose
came into publicity by a resolution
unanimously adopted by the Nebraska
State Board of Agriculture at Lincoln ,
on January 4th , 1872. That resolution
was original with J. Sterling Morton.
Prior to its conception neither the
thought of , nor a name for , a universal
tree planting anniversary had been
suggested to him by any newspaper ,
person or committee , the flesh and the
devil of malicious envy to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Write the Roycroft Shop , East Au
rora , New York , for good and interesting
books from the bright brains of Elbert
Hubbard. Yon can got "Forbes of
Harvard , " three hundred and fifty
pages , for one dollar and twenty-five
cents and "American Statesmen" for a
dollar and seventy-five cents , when some
of the latter are sold singly at a thous
and times that price. THE CONSERVA
TIVE commends the books and works of
the Roycrofters to all who like good
reading well dished up and garnished
tastefully.
What are our Centennials and World's
Fairs by the side of such a celebration
as that lately held in Marseilles , in honor
of the 2500th anniversary of the found
ing of that city ?
