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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1880)
"HP DAILY BEE : MONDAY MORNING , DLCiOi1 ER 20 , 1880. THE DAILY B. ROSEWATBB ; EDITOR THE impartial views of Mr. Robert Haras , general manager of the Eric road , as briefly -expressed , are "We've got the thumb screws on th < people , and only want to be let aloni in order to uaher in an era of gooc feeling , brotherly love and fifty pe ; cent dividends " THE election contest in this count ] has revealed a state of management in the county clerk's office which call for an immediate investigation by the Oiunty commissioners. The packag ( of ballots , which the law requires t < be securely sealed and deposited ic safety in the office of that official have been tampered with and the seal found broken. The county clerk , ii whose hands the ballots wera placed Is responsible for their safe keeping By the testimony of his deputy , tb grossest negligence and carelessness i clearly proved on John R. Manches tec. The ballots were placed on th floor of the vault , to whic the pnblic seems to have had general oral admission , and the resnl is eeen in the broken seals and opene packages which were brought befoi Justice Rilev. Such criminal negl gence , to call it by its mildest name is unpardonable , and easily accounts fc hesitancy with which the deputy at swered the summons to prodnce tt packages ia court. If our count commissioners want a good subjei for Investigation , they need not lea\ their seat * In the clerk's office. OMAHA , like many other wea em cities , has recently been force by the enterprise of American pnl llshing firms to face the question of change of text books in her pnbl schools. Without entering upon an of the details of the subject as a loci matter , we presume that good an sufficient reasons existed for tt change which our school board sa fit to make in the readers. It is i leist charitable to take this view an will relieve our remarks from th charge of bainj ; directed in any on particular direction or with any ul tertor end. The text book questio in our pnblic schools is on which forces itself too frequentl ; upon public attention. Thi o use for this is easily ascertainable There is no class of books so profitabl to publishers , on account of the stead ; demand for them as a well introduce ! school book. Fortunes have beei made by compilers of stale facts am undigested rules purely and s mpl ; because their agents have possessei powers of persuasion sufficient to in duce ignorant or corrupt school man agementa to foist worthless trash uput their helpless pupils. Thousands o dollars have been drawn from th pockets of parents through unnecaa sary changes in books of instrnctior for their children , while admirably adapted text books have been casi aside to make way for others , which , wnile of less advantage to our school system , increase the profits of the publishin houses. Conservatism in the changing of text books should be the rule among onr school boards. Tnat text book which i he most clearly and concisely puts the pupil in potsession of ele mentary knowledge , is the best. That arithmetic or reader or geogra phy , which instructs while it compels thought and holds the attention while it disciplines the mind , is the one best adapted for the needs of onr school children. Frequent changes of text ODks are injurious alike to pupil and teacher. Except in the case of the sciences there has been lit tle advance in such works with in the last ten years , and some of the aolest work * written fo the instruction of our school children were published prior to that time. Any change should be made only af ter the moat mature deliberation and an examination cf the new text books by a competent and impartial committee. A CAKD appears without signature in the Omaha Republican denying the charges which were made by THE BEE on the authority of one of the notar ies in the election contest , and backed by the testimony of Deputy County Clerk H. T. Leavitt. We are content to let the Omaha Republican of Friday apeak for itself : The examination in the contested election cases was resumed yesterday morning , pursuant to adjournment Deputy'County Clerk Leavitt appear ing at 9 o clock with the ballots and poll-books of the First ward , in obedience to the subpoena Issued - sued the day before. He was briefly examined by the coun sel for the respective parties , the fact being shown that the seal of the pack age said to contain the ballots had been broken in some way , -which broken condition witness said existed at the time he removed the pack-ace from the large bundle containing all the votes cast in the various wards and precincts , in order ti produce said package before the court , but how said break occurred he was unable to say. say.The package of ballots , together with the poll-books of the First ward was offered in evidence by counsel for contestants , counsel for contest ants calling the attention of the court to the fact that the package of ballots was broken open , and requesting the court to seal said package so as to pre- Bsrve its present condition in that re gard , which was done. THE IRISH CRISIS. The present crisis in Ireland is a difficult subject for Americans fully t ( comprehend in all its bearings. Th reports daily flashed by the cables tt our shores , the more extended corres pondences copied into our papers f ron foreign j mrnals , the narratives of thi past and the forecasts of the future- all unfortunately have their origii from London offices , and present : biassed , partial and strictly Englisl view of the situation to their readers Resistance to unjust and oppressiv tax collectors is magnified into defi ance of the law. Isolated instance of purely personal revenge against ty rannical and soulless plunderers of th poor are distorted into the outbreak of an organized conspiracy , am the whole Irish people are paintei in the most lurid colors of journalist ! imagination as a band of robber-en throats waging a senseless and crut war against the rights of property an the persons of the Queen's lawfi subjects. The light which several of the Ne York papers , and notably the Heral and Tribune have recently bee throwing upon the question by meat of their own special correspondent ; ia doing much to disabuse our peop' of the views they have unconscious ! absorbed from the English journal Life and property , aa a rule , wei never more secure i 1 ; the present time. The Land Leagi which baa extended its organizatic into every county and hamlet hi adopted a far more effectual mode i making the power of an indignai people felt than by destro ; ing property or taking lif Every tyrannical landlord , evei oppressive agent , every Irishman wl prefers the company of bis countrj impoverishes more than the welfa : of his i people is laid under the ba of non intercourse. Shunned by h friends , deserted by his laborers an servants , even tradesmen refuse h patronage , and children escape fro : his presence as from that ot a lepe The social condition of such a perse can better be imagined than describe and there is little cause for surprise : the announcement of such numbers < the outcasts leaving Ireland and crosi ing the channel to more congenial 1 < calities. When this state of affairs is take into consideration , the cur lot position into which the Euglia cry for coercion in Irelani has driven the cabinet can b easily understood. Ireland is to b flooded with 20,000 troops , and fo whatpurpose ? To enforce the laws ? I will be difficult to find a law or prec edent in the English reports whid will compel a man to associate witl those distasteful to him , to work whei he prefers to be idle , to sell good when he chooses to let them remain 01 his shelves. The law of the lane league is now supreme and so far as i frowns down all open disorder , it is it self an aid to the law which as sncl cannot be assailed. The bugbear oi an Irish insurrection , of murdered landed proprietors , desolated towns , and law-defying b < dies of armed men , and an intimidated constabulary ex ists principally in the imagination ol the government. What actually does exist is a people thoroughly aroused to their wrongs , earnest in their ef forts to right them by lawful means if possible , and determined to hold every opponent of land reform in Ireland as a social and political ene my , an outcast and pariah , with whom they will neither have intercourse nor permit to thwart the tide of feeling which is sweeping the British nation towards a radical solution of their just demands. For seven centuries English rule in Ireland has drained the vitality of the Irish nation , impoverished the soil and developed in its people ple a hatred of the English and Englishmen , which nothing can for years to come eradicate. "Ireland for the Irish" has become something more than a mere sentiment. It throbs through the pulses of the national life as a supreme desire which is one of the very conditions of its existence. It can neither be checked by argu ment nor dissipated by armed force. Well had it been for Great Britain if she had heeded , seventy years ago , the words < f jRichard Brinaley Sher idan , her unrivalled wit , her most fascinating - cinating orator : "If they were to be the last words I should ever utter in this house , I should say : be just to [ reland as you value your own honor ; be just to Irqland as you value your ) wn peace. " JOHN KELLKY'S scalp is the latest rophy which hands in Cipher Alley. DENUNCIATION of South Carolina lection frauds comes with poor grace rom a paper like the Republican , the razen apologist of the infamous at impt to steal four seats in the No raska legislature. THE .Republican thinks Leo Hart- an , the nihilist , would be a mana- Qg editor after | THE BEE'S own End. Any honest and able man would more after THE BEE'S own mind it the hireling editor of the Repub- in. THE FUTURE OH' THB REPUBLI CAN PARTY. With the advent of General Gar- iold at the helm of the Republic , thf- republican party will enter upon thb 'ourth great era within its eventful listory. Beginning with the first ; un fired on Samter and ending with : he tragic assassination of Abraham Lincoln , the republican party emerged triumphantly from the bloody and fiery ordeal of civil war as the savior of the Union and emancipatoi of four million slaves. The second era , more trying even than the first , began with the react ionary administration of Andrew Johnson during the period oftsonthen reconstruction and terminated witl the enfranchisement of the emancipa ted race and the perpetual guarantee of equality before the law to all men , The chanter from the political hiatorj of .Nebraska , contributed by Majoi Balcombe , who as proprietor of thi Omaha Republican during that criti cal era , was a leading actor ii the struggle with Johnsonite traitors shows how the existence and suprem acy of the party was imperiled evei way out in the then territory of Ne braska , by the treasonable conduc of venal and corrupt party leaders The third era began with the advetil of General Grant , which affirmed through the man on horseback , tha this republic is a nation and not a con federacy of states , and culminated wit ] resumption , fiinancial and commorcia stability and general prosperity nnde Rutherford B. Hayes. The third period , like the second imperiled the existence of the roput IIcan party by defections from it ranks. General prostration of com merce and Industry , reckless extrava gance , defalcations and organize ) raids upon the treasury by vena and unprincipled public men , the die tribution of patronage amen : dishonest partisans as rewards of per sonal service to congressmen am senators the scandals of the crookec whisky ring , alienated from the parti large numbers of the better ele ment , and some of its very founder : From a three-fourths majority ii both houses of congress the republi can party was driven into a helplesi and almost hopeless minority , on th < verge of dissolution and ruin , uhei the present administration entered in to power and gave it renewed vitality by restoring popular confidence ir its integrity and fidelity to the nation. It was mainly the spotless recorc made by the clean-handed administrv tion of Hayes that made the triumph' ant election of General Garfield and the overthrow of the rebel brigadiers and their solid south possible. And now when the republican party is about to enter upon another era , we can readily forecast its future by the past. If General Garfield , profit ing by the lesson of history , shall surround himself by a cabinet made np cf men of stainless repute , whose sole motive is to serve their country and their party ; if competency and honesty are made essential requisites in the civil service , and strict account ability is enforced in every branch ; if the administration of General Garfield grapples with the overreaching giant monopolies that seek to dominate over this republic and make all branches of government subservient to their grasping greed the republican party has an unlimited lease of power jefore it. If General Garfield how ever succumbs to the evil machina tions of designing and venal party leaders , and surrounds him self with cabinet counsellors ike Phineas Hitchcock , Jim Wilson and other rotten timber the repub- ican party will hardly survive anoth er presidential election. Hitchcock at the head of the inte rior department 1 The incarni.tlon of obbery in almost absolute control over the national domain , with power to convey millions of acres to subsi dized corporations ; with authority to decide mining claim disputes , involv ing millions ; with unrestricted power to apportion half a million every year among pnblic survey rings ; guardian and trustee of the wards of the nation , empowered to appoint Indian traders and disburse .annuities ; acting as su pervisor of the pension bureau , which disburses thirty million a year among the maimed veterans of tbo war , and the widow * and orphans of the falle heroes of the union ; charged wit' protecting the Interests of the Amer : can people in the great national high ways which they endowed with prince ly subsidies. Hitchcock in the plod of the invulnerable Zacb Chnndle ind incorruptible Carl Schnrz wool bury General Garfield nnder a moun tain of scandal , and drag the republi : an party into a quagmire of corrup ion from which it could never hop to extricate itself. indications. pedal Dispatch to The Bee. WASHINGTON , December 20 , 1 a. i. For the upper Mississippi and ) wer Missouri valleys : Partly loudy weather and areas of light now , colder north wind , probably lifting slightly , warmer east and intherly winds and stationary or ightly falling barometer. The jury in the Bartree-Shouce urder trial at Honesdale , Pa. , at a te hour Saturday evening brought a verdict of murder in the second gree. POWEtf.PLUMDER.PEEbTIGf ! The True and False Ex ponents of Republican ism in Nebraska. The Organ of the Union Pacific Company and the Hitchcock Bolter Faction , The Senatorial Question anc the Interior Secretary ship. . The defeat of the Hon. C. K. Coutan at the late election has caused The Omahi Republican to go into a spasm of indigna tion over the defeat of a republican nomi nee by republicans. To new-comers , its ravines may appea genuine , but old Eettlers of Nebraska , whi know the political record of the outfit , whi have controlled its columns for the pa four jear , take no stock in its profession of fidelity to the republican party , or pa ; any attention to its denunciations of gooi republicans , because they have exercisei their rights as citizens to scratch thei tickets aud refuse to vote for a LOCAL re publican nominee who had betrayed thei material inte-ests , most shamefully. Sir. D. C. Brook- , the editor of Th Republican , b an irresponsible hired ma ; who simply performs the labor required b ; his employer for a salary , the same as an ; other hired man does , hence it is not wort while to waste any time on him ; his poei tion is sufficiently humiliating of itself , a the amanuensis of the Union Pacific. Mr. Fred Nye , its associate editor , wa a Greeley bolter in 1872 , and labored fn the election of the democratic candidate fo the pre'idency against the regular republ : can nominee TT. S. Grant , and is also for the Hitcb hired man and dirt-flinger cock faction. The retpons ble parties are its prnprit tors tbe Union Pacific company and th Hitchcock faction , an old clan of Republi can bolters. The Union Pacific furnishe the principal portion of the wherewith. which sustains its life ; the Hitchcock boll er faction father the concern for the sake c outside appearances. T. L Kunball , th general political manager for the Unio Pacific , imported its editor into this tat because he was an experienced railroa journalist , and he is a success as such , bti a total failure as a po itical editor. The partnership of the Union Pacific an the Hitclicock faction , is an unusual nn peculiar one one desires financial and th oth--r political domination , hence their de sires never clash and they work togethe almost always in perfect harmony , and th < success of either is a success for both. Th Union Pacific is the heavy partner of th concern a foreign corporation wi hnut i soul-a conscience , religion , or politica pr'nciple ' ; its only God is mammon am more millions , it has no care as to whicl party is up or down ; whichever party o faction will sacrifice the interests of thi people to the ereatest extent for its benefit is its favorite the Hitchcock faction beinj the one in this state it has gone into part uership , offensive and defensive with it Jay ( Jould , the chief of this corpoiation stated under oath , in his evidence befori the New York legislative committee ii 1875 , that he had been in the habit of send ing moi.ey into the numerous districts all over the state of New Y > rk either tc control nominations or elections , and s lie it would be'as impossible to specify the niv merous instances as it would to recall tc mind 'the numerous freight cars sent ovei the Erie road from day to day. and als < said : "I do not know how much I caid to wards helping friendly men. We had fem states to look after , and we ha'l to suitoui _ politics to circumstances. In a republican _ distri t , I was a republi an ; in a democratic listrict , I was a democrat , and in a. doubt ful dktrict , I was doubtful ; but , in every district and at all times , I have always been in Erie man. " The Union Pacific is run on the same heory , in this state , by the the same man ; t wants more millions , and the Hitchcock action want more political power and ) lacea and The Omaha Republican is the organ of both parties It is a mutual ben efit partnership go into any county .hroughout this state and find an employe of the railroad partner , be he democrat or epublican , and you will find him industri ously at work for the political advancement of the Hitchcock faction partners or , find one of tne political factional partners , and you will find a striker for the railroad lartner. The patronage and favor of this firm , s immense , and is handjed by trai ed gen- rals unde- Commanding General T. L. Cimball , the shrewdest political manager n this state , who knos how to use it vhen ifwill count the most for the benefit f both partners , und crush out all who at- , empt to thwart its unholy purpose , or ad vance their own interests independently of ts diet tion , and for the cast ten years it las been generally successful. It has gen-/ / rally controlled eity , county and state irimaries and < onventions and all legisla- ive bodies , and thaped all legislation tea a liking , and had the laws construed an' xecuted in its aver , except in the highe ourts The Omaha Republican is the > roperty of this firm and its chief orpnn ind it' other organ , The Herald , has hai , o take a Inck neat and dp the clacking nd second its motions. Still The Heralc s no drone even on a back seat , for when verthis firm wants a little democratic elp to elect Hitchcock rr Paddock U S enator , or C-.utant as state senator , or ob ain the appointment of Hitchcock as oab net officer , the demo-ratic Herald chip n promptly and .T Sterling Moiton fol ows suit. The Miller and Morton winj , f the democratic party have been of giea ; rvice to tins firm several times , am dou'd ' have full credit , therefor , and re eives it from numerous disgusted demo rats , in every county in this btate. The political record and status of the titchcock faction partner in this firm , is ecidedly imereitiLR in view of its presen lort to read out of the repubh'cau party ivery good republican who refuses to fol- ow us diet ation. Some "f this faction own in interest in The Repablican and some 10 not , but they all give it their support L'he leading members are : P. W. Hitch- ock , A. S. Paddock and C. E.'Yost , the nanager of The Republican. These fren- lemen have resided in Nebraska nearly a liiarter of a century , and devoted nearly 11 of that time to offic--seekin ? and office- itokerage business. Previous to Andrew 'ohnson's presidency , Hitchcock had been 7. S. marshal and delegate in congress 'addock had been ecretary of Nebraska , nd C. E. Yost had been U. S. marshal ositii > ns which they received as republi- uns from the republican party. When 'resident ' Johnson , the traitor to the re- ublic.m party , attempted to transfer the .dininistration of this Republic over into 11 hands of the rebels , these gentlemen llowed him out of the republican p irty id into the democratic party and re- ained there during his term. They ic-sed that the Johnson movement mid be a success , and as they uere t troubled irith any political convictions , ey jumped into it , Lopm ? thereby to ob- in other political favors from the demo- its. As a matter of course when Hitchcock ; urned from congress in 1SGG , the repnb- in party , represented in a con-entinnat ownvilJe. refused to re-nominate _ him as ; erritorial delegate , and nominated T. Marquette for delegate and John Taffe member of congreis in the event Ne- ska was admitted as a state. The dem * . ocra ic and the so-called Johnson con1 vention met on the s .n-e diy at Platts month of that yer and pooled their is sues , by one of thrm n inating A. S Pad 'ock for congress and the other nomi nating J. Sterling Mo ton fordelega e m placing tiiem bet > on the same ticket , am s pportinjrit. Hitch ock and Yost sup ported it ga nsf the ragu'ar repnblicai nominations. This was a to al desertion o the republican party in the darkst days o ts history when the treachery of Johnsoi was very'Ua le to destroy the party of th Nation , when th * party h .d but little i any majority in this suite , as the result that very election proved , for Taffe wa elected bynl a out riOJ majority. Thi was a period when those who had professe- - to t > e republicans were tested a d thos wh we e genuine rt-pu licans , stood finr and those who were not , deserted aa Hitch cock and Paddock did As a conadenicn for P. W. Hitcli cock's deseition of the republican par y a that time , Presid-nt Johnson , the trait- appointed him surveyor-g neral of low and Xebraskt. In 18 > 9 Hitchcock was a dark horse cat diilate for I' . S senator as Tiptou's sui cessor. His friend W. F. Kweezy kef open hs headquaite s at th ? Atwoo < House , in Lincol , and he und Joel T G.iffen , Joseph Fox , Dan S. Parmeles Dr..odwill , A. S Paddock , C. I Yo t and others underto k to manipulat the republican legislative caucus in such ; manner as to cause it to fail to uomm.it any cne for senator and have the legi la ture go into a joint convention for th election of senat r without a party nomi nee , but this was a fi lire , for Tipton wa nomin ted Hitchcock then hoped _ ti prevent the republic m party _ from inakin ; a nomination , and then go into he join convention with the support of the demo crats and a few republicans and be eleclei as the South Platte senator , but the re publican p ity would not permit it th"n In 370 Hitchcock & Co. establishe i Tb Omaha Tribune as a bolter's organ. _ Join I. Redick who has finally Ianed in th democratic pa > ty , was one of the partner in this enterprise. C. E. Yoi-t was on also , and A. S. Paddock was oce of it supporters. In that year it was apparen that a great majority of the rei ublican were in favor ( if- the re-election of lion John M. Thayer as TJ. S. senator , an that such would have been the result i ; 1871 had not the Hitchcock bolters resort ed to extraordinary and disnryanizin movements no one who was a resident c the state at that time doubts. But the established The Tribune at a grea co- and devoted its columns to th * > inaugun tion and encouragement of every boltin and disorganizing movement pusaible I Douglas county , where this bolting ontfi was best known , it failed to defeat the re. ularly nominated republican members c the legislature , after resorting to ever method knoicnto bolters to accomplish thei end. But in other counties it met wit some success and defeated several r gula republican nominees. The result was th election of 31 republi'ana , 12 deaioorat and 7 people's candidates elected by bll era and democrats. Thus , in spite of thi efforts of this boll era' outfit , there was a good m jority o the entire legislature elected as regular re publicans , and it was soon ascertained tha a large majority of the regi lar rep blica ; memoers were in favor of the re-electioi of the Hon. John M. Thayer , and that i the usages of the p rty thr"Ui.hou th land were lived up to a repub ican legisla live caucus would nominate him ; aud i would have done so if it had betn h-ld but its meeting was prevented by Hitch cock & Co. , who induced a faw republi cans to refuse to g into caucus and abid by its decision. This was a b It of h trusted representatives of the party , su p rinduced by Hitchcock & Co. for thi personal advant ige of th s firm. In thi state up to that time , and m all othe states up to this time , senatorial aspir nt have had to submit to a majority voice o a party caucus , but this legislatu e en : into ioint convention for the election o : senator without any caucus nominations , and the result was the election of P.V , Hitchcock. John M. Thayer received 17 straight re publican votes , and 7 straight republicans voted for other repu1 licans. P. W. Hitchcock received the ESTIRE democra'i vote (12) ( ) , the ENTIRE > ote of the mem ers elected as people's candidates (7) ( ) and OXLl 7 out of the 31 regular republicans. Thus Hit hcockxvas elected in violation of partj usaje , in opposition to the solemn protest o f a large majority of the regular repub' licans , and through the support of the unanimous representation of the demo cratic party and the bolters who owed their e ection to the democrats and a very few regular repu' ' ilicana. The democrats who voted for him were Dillon , Patterson , Conger , Qnimliy , Grin- nell , Hawke , Duby of Sarpy county , Ron-e , Hudson , Thomas , Munn and Ten- nant. The people's candidates were Can non , Overton , She'don , Doom , Porter , C'ark ' and Pott-nger. The re-tular repub licans were Summerlad. Tucker , Wick- ham , Bro n , Briggs cf Dodge county , Gerrard and Cunningham. This demon strates that he was never elected TJ. S. senator as a republican and by republi cans , but that he held that high office through ; he favor of the democnta as a rewaid for his disposition and efforts in behalf of the destruction of the republi can party at various times , and in consid eration of ceitain promises he made them as to his future course , which he vie lated. Right here it is interesting to notice the Fact that the then anti-Grant element of the republican party , and of course the entire snti-Orant democratic party united and 3'ected Hitchcock anti-Grant aa an - sena tor , but immediately after taking his seat in the senate he deser'ed the enti > e anti Srant element nnd became a dev ted fol lower of Grant's , and has BO remained to late. Why ? _ Because Tipt n.our other sen Uor.apostatizedand joined the democracy , ind Hitchcock saw a lucky opportunity to Apostatize and become a sole dispenser of Grants patrona/e in this state , uhich he improved to its fu'l ' extent , power and pr-stige being his Moloch. But i ow he pretends that his moral sen sibilities are terribly shocked because Pres ident Hayes occasionally befriends Senator saundeis , who has supported his adminis tration when apostacy to principle or Friends was not involved , instead of Sena- ; or Paddock , who has uniformly maligned ihe administration. Oh , consistency , what i jewel tliou art ! During his entire senatorial term he de- coted his time and energies towards the mnishment of those republicans who had ilways remained loyal to the r pub ican larty and its usages and the promotion of ; hose wh had followed him m his bolting ) perationa. He obtained the appoint- nent of C. E. Yost as postmaster at Oma- la , Potteng < er and Bnrnes.of Cass county , is land officers ; E. E. Cunningham , at urveyor-peneral ; DL-k Adams , as clerk n the treasury department ; Tucker , a. and officer ; J E. Moore , as mail clerk ; r. Fox , aj land officer , and others of the ame il'-c. In 1875 A. S. Paddock was elected IT. lenatorby the grace of the democrats also , nd he obtained the required number of emocra ic members of the legislature to lect him , by solemnly promising that in lie event of the election of a democratic ilministration in I87C ( Tilden.s ) he tcould .n supporter of the democratic adminisUn- 011. This proriiiae wag made to E. A. Jlen , chairman cf the democratic state immittee ; Col A hby , Frank Murphy , . Ru tiu , Geo. B. Graff , J. G. Megeath , : r. Platt. of Hall county , and other dem- rats , and a written memorandum agree- ent to that effect , and including other omises , was retained by Rome of the tter. He also rave the democratic Otoe dele- ti n the following pledges for their sup- rt : NNeb. . , Jan. 22 , 1875. "o the Otoe Co. Jkhyatiim in Ltyiilature : DEAR SIRS In reply to your inquiry iteming my course if eltcted to the late , I will say that my interests are ntical with yours , having large prop- y interests at Beatrice , including my ne. "I can assure you that 't will give me the greatest plea ure to aid you in secur ing the erection of a bridge across the Missouri river at Nebraata City , to use my best enileav rs to ave the federal courts held at Nebraska City , and I will m > ele. ting men foi p sitions from Otot county be guided by your counsel. "A S. PADDOCK. " Promises which he vio'ated ith as much eas-1 as ho mad them , as the peopl < of Otoe will testify. Thus he was reward ed torb.traying the republican party anil conseutius ! to be a democratic candidate for pugress asainst thereuular republican nominee , the Hon. J. Taffe , in 186am : bein. a member of the Hitclicock c an ol bo'ters. ' Hi chcock anil Paddock are tht only senators from Nebraska who ever re > ceived democratic votes , and had it not been for democratic bupport they nevei would have been -enators. Paddock has als > devoted his entirt term to the promotion of the interests ol the Hitchcock faction and the Union fa cijic , and puni-h mj al' tt.e old reliable re > public ns who wen- not wi ling to become the sub < rvient tools of both , and as a fac tional senator he h is never been equaled in uny state in this Union. He has op- po ed the appointment of W. J. Con ell as U S. attorney ; Mr. Robb , as rollectoi of revenue ; T chuck , as census supervise : Judge Gnmn-e , as collector ; St. A. Di Balcombe , as U. S. mar hai ; Mr B llou , as U. S. m.vsha1 , and E L. Bierlxnver as U. S. marshal , and i.ther old reliable re publicans , for no other reason than t iM th y were not followers of the Hitchcock fao ion or the Union Pac fie dictators. In 877 P. W. Hitchcock was a candid - d te for re-e ecti n as U. S. senator , and for the first time in his life he was unopen and avowed candidate. Previous to that he was always a dark horse candidate for everything that WAS out , skulking around n the dark out of sight in behind otheis whom he was professing to t > upp rt and at the t > roe ti.iie undermining for ' i * o n benefit. This time he was forced to an op < ; n fjcht for re-ele tion. but fail d to ac complish it. And why ! Simply because there was a maj > rity of the republican 'nembers of the leg-slatiire large enou li to be a majority of the whole legislature in j nit com entio ih laver of the election ol Senator Sannders in his stead. The Millei wing of the democratic party w < ; re in fa vor of Hitchcock's elect on. Senator Bar- nuin , chairman of thedeinocraticnation.il committee ; Samuel J. Tildar , ilemocratic candidate for the presidency , and hN poor Peltou , sent word to the democracy of this state , through Miller nnd Allen , that Hi chrock ought to be re elected , and n mi jo ity of tbe democratic members signed an agreement to v te for him when ever their votes woul 1 elect , but that time never came , and there was a minority pro testing against voting for any republican , some of whom had been instructec by t e con entions which nominated them to thi- effect , and the Miller wing went so far as to make a st o p t-ffort to have these con ventions recalled to rescind these instruc tions. The democracy hoped that thf presidential contested ca e then in prop - p ess would be deci ed in favor of Samuel J Tilden , a < d they knew this man Hitch cock was not troubled with anypoltica : convictions , a' d counted upon his being a supporter of Tilden'a administration if in- deb eJ to the casting vote of the d-rao- cratic members for r i.s election , and Ti den was successful , and they were nnd ubted- ly right in the r conjectures. But Hitchcock w.is unaMe to obtain the suppo t of enough repu1 lican member- whf n ad ed to th t ot the entire demo- c "tic v te in the legislatu e t- > elect liim , as he h d before when he was elected ; hen e his failure aud the election of Sena tor launders without any democratic aid , or that of the Union Pacificcompain . All upright i-itizent i ope we have aban doned the system inaugurated ten ye.trs ago by the Hi'chcock clique , viz : tha of going into joint c nveiition for the elec tion of U. M. senat' r without a republican caucus nominee for the republican mem bers to voteforas a party unit and thereby allowing the democ atic minority ther in to decide wh sball repr sent us in tb na tional councils 1 y its casting vote in favor nf our moit unworthy and inferior candi date wbo will be the least objectionable t- the lenrcricv and tbe most likely to- betray the republican party in some great emergency. Suppo e Ga field's adm nis- ttation should be succeeded by a emo- craliu a ministration , and Hitclic ck and Pa'dock ' ere ebr ska's United S'ates senators with the ca ting vote in the wen- ate , does any of hold nettlcrs who inti- maHy know them and thei record p e- tend to believe they would remain faithful to the repnblii an party ? Why , of cour-e not ; they would array themselves on the side of power prestige and i'lun ler. Grea'erthan they have betrayed there- imblic.in p.'rty : is senators Trumbull of Illinois , Doolittle of Wisconsin , KOSH of Kansas , Norton of Minn-eota , and others. Hereafter the republican mpmt > ers of the legi latnre ought to 'gsem ble in caucus and determine wh shall be United tales -e-.at irs inadiuni ed manner urn' ' ace r - ! ng to general party usages.and thus secure ; he eiec'ion o the most steadfast re ubli- cnns instead of the most vaci latmg , eape- cialjy now. iu view of the fac that the [ Jnited States senate is liable for some iime to come to be very equally div ded letween the two parties , men who are cnown to be republicans because they are inn believers in she principles of the iarty shoul be elected , instead of those vho act with th t pirty only because it las the disposaal of the political patron age. age.C. . E. Yost , the present manager of The Republican , has always foll"We < l the for- unes of tbe Hitchcock faction in all of its X'lting movements with remarkable fidel- ty , and received his reward -he efore n numerous official posi'ionii from Hitchcock and favors from the Union Pacific. The Hitchcock ring has always been the lisorganizing element ot the republican party in this stite. nd its methods have heen of the most unscrupulous character. If the party * ominated anyone who was not a m mber of it * faction , hi was liabl * to suffer defeat at its hands -by either ipen or covert bolting. J . M. Thurston , before he became an employeee of the Union Pa ific , was defeated yjtfor jmLcr in this largely republican district. So w s W. J. Coime'l defeated by it for dutrict- ittorney in this same district. So wis Mr Jacobs defeated by it for city treasurer twice , in this city , and in this , the xery ! ast election , a isgularly nomina ed repub- ican candidate f T the legislature in each ) f Buffalo and Sarpy counties , were ile- : eated by it , and a very strong effort was nade by it to defeat the regular nominees n Washington , Oto and other counties. It has always harloted with the derno- : ratic minority and generally received its lid , as against the stalwart element of the epublican party , for the reason that it had iV denced its willingness to be ray the re- mblican pirty at any time when it was bought betrayal would be successful. AH i matter of course the democrats preferred L republican bolter to a genuine republi- another hired man on Miner , > n , or , as he Republican , states it in his letter to he New York Times : "T > e member-hip f the legislature is so overwhelmingly re- ublican that tha democracy ha e no alter ative but to aid by their votes the candi- te who is most conserratmly republican nd least ( ctionable lo them. " This H , ndoubtedly , a hint to the democratic iemb < T3 of the next legislature to vote 'ain for Paddock or Hitchcock , for th" tier has one eye on the next south Platte matorship. He is not at all particular hich side of the Platte river he b elected i represent , norw'-ich party elects him , 1 > r how much isnney hu friends pay for 1j j s election ; nor u as or Paddock at all * uticular w to how rcany tiinen they omise to give republican patronage toe . * e democrats. The present management hae ha < l con- : > ! of The Republican for tha riastonr ars , an-i daring that period it na open- , r erdstently and Rhamefii.Iy reviled the es-ent republican ajmiulstrati n to the tent of its ability , a clean admir.istra- m which historians will record as onof honorab'e and wise a record a.s this Re- blic ha < ever had. In the late campaign ; republican orators and i res-s w re all npeUed ti fall back upon its substantial its high character and prosper ous course as the strongest ground for thei r appeal to the e fo lease peep a new of now. er. Even The Uerald , tbe democratic oV- gars for thi * state , has not equaled it ia venom against this aduiinistiktion , an(1 Mules * Garfied turns o er to Hitchcock and I .u | ock and their organ. The Repubi lican , the entire control of his patronasa for thw state , it w 11 be hostile to his ad ministration no matter how wise and pnr it may be. T is organ of a faction aaviteM the repudiation of the present adminisu \ tion , and the nomination of Grant fijFtho next but the repn lican party of thi/ltate repudiated its advice through its rj/fresen- tativesin the state convention a/Colum- bus , and sent a delegation to th6 Chicasro convention last spring which nfianimouslv opposed the p lic-y it advocated , and final ly voted for Garfiel . notwithstanding tha I .M1 * ' "ld Utohcock and Paddock had failed the press of this state w th pre dictions that there , u lican party of the .Nation was cert iin of defeat if their advice - vice was not heeded and Grant nominated. Under its pre-ent management The Re publican has maligned s-uch highly re spect d republicans as Senator t-'aunders JBrown. . Jud. e Brig * ; . , J. H. Kellom. Judge Croun-e. W. . ) . Connell , ohn A. 'orbach , Judge l ike. M. T. Barlow , Herman Konutze. Judge Cobb , Bran * TKchuck , J. O. Cowin , en. Van Wyck , 1 < - b heed. Jndge viaxweil. Maj Arm strong , Collector t ebb , and others , and commended such as "CoL" F.'ank Hal- , , n'nSe"atorP-xl'lw * , f'ninfcaters.J. . M Thnrston. Dick Adams , P. W. Hitch- cok J. E M-ore , C. A. Baldwin , Paul V anderv ort , James Keyner , and others , who were either Union Pacific employee or obedient followers of the Hitchcock fac tion Nearly all of the old party barnacles , place hunters and time servers , joined with this baud o time servers , and hover around this organ as naturally as flies con gregate around an old wnpty sugar hogs head m the summer time , becau-e it ad- > - , vertb.es that it is ai organ of a syndicate * iorthedisiMis.lpf all official pair nage of thi state , that it is a . .cable-barreled con- co' n , and that when it i * unable to obtain otfici .1 positions f r thl > rnacles. there is still another chain e for their obtaininir employment or contracts from the n.i road partner it aTaobo dly advertises that t o Union Pacific domin tes in both , the financial and political affairs f this stite , and always will , which is believed by the time s rvers ; but a little more time and a few more defeats , will teach them others wise. This stata will not rerWc * , , M > _ longer the onlv state ia the fnion where * Unpeople allow a corp iration to run their political flairs to its liking. The ( eoplo will not continue long to be pliant toola and automat..u.s in the hands of a few , to b-pushed here and there and mech nicMly ncrrf in the working out of its combina tions. Ine Repub'i an professes tt be a legi timate newsp iper the organ of the 'epub- Jican party and the people , when in fact it i nothing more n..rles than a programme sheet for trie t nion Pacific and the Hitch- ci ck faction , like unt those which Bar- mm- circulates free of chime , t advertise his show business. Hut B rnum Is more honorable than they.f rhedoes not charge f-r hi , a ivertising sh ets nor does he cir culate them un er f Ise colors or names , and he pnts a photograph likeness of himse f in every iss e so ch it the readers can fee wh"t he lo tcs likp. which Dillon , 6sidentof the Union Pacific and Bpsa- 6- itch ock neglect to do in the.r advertising hret. There is not another insta ce ia Ame tea where a railroad company and a politic 1 fact on have formed a partner ship in the publication of an org.n to ound the prates of its o ner and at tempt to palm it off as a newspaper und ak a community -npport it The in vestments in this orga i are not made as a legitimate business proposiii n , with a view of .leriving a direct lofit or living the cf om and pn Becutin ? a profession the ein. The stock-holders do not draw divi 'ends ' the eon , but simply invest there in , as a side-show affair , tohtveaco'parate and personal organ to commend themselves U > u die favor N hat spectacle to be- / bold to hee Hitchcock fill the columns of \ his " "n jane [ or cause his h red man to , which is the same thing ] with assertions that he i < ebraaka'sgieatrst statesman ind therefore should be made 01 e of Gar- Seld's labi.ft fficers" , and that he is tbe : > eer of the e who are generally called nt presidents catiirients when it ia renerally known that there aie a iu tired republicans in this s'ate , < uch as Thiy.r , Manderson , Haywood , 3Iarkson , E tabr ok. Cla'k , Gannett , Vinin. , Locke. Mitchel1 , Collins , Holmes , Sannders , D lily , Briggs , Calltj'nCowin , alev Mason , Howe. Nance , Webster , Vil er of rialine. Dundy , O'Connor , I'hurston , Hayiner.Taffe MajiNtFumas. M-irjuette , We.v r , Laird , 3n unsGere , Uawes , L : mbe : ebb , y.m Wy.-k. Kimball , Lake , Mil fonzalin and others too imtinroas to man ioc , ayof whom have more integrity and ire more able men iu every re pect except , hat they have followed some legitimate Kxuuntinn , and have not devoted aa e i- ire lite-time to an acquirement of a kcowl- Ig of p. litic-al trickery to the exclusion if everything else as he has , which is mythi.ig but creditable b > him orai/Xdy ils . He started in life in the hynora&je > rofession of law , but immediately abaiS loned it for that of a politica/8cavenger\ ! ind Ur.ion Pacific tie contrecior and lob- > yist. He goes fmther , and cause ) his lired man Miner and hi hired man Hor- correstionde ts of the Cbica rnsen , * Triune - > une and Chicago and New York Tune * , 0 proclaim through the columns of these treat j nrnals that Hitchcock Ls Ncbra- ca's greatest statesman. Neither ha nor inybody else who has a teawpoonful of > rains left , ihink fora in > ment that Hitch- rock will ever be call d into any presi- lent'a cabinet , and his only objest in hru-ting his name Before the pubic for his high position is to attempt to m gn fy lis importance in the eyes of thecming- Administration , so as to enable him to deL L greater office brokerage btisinf s inder t than be has und r Hayes' admiristra- ion , aud to impress the new cormra in his sta e with * he 'dta that he 's Nibras- I a .s most i ifted and noble ate.im.ji , in f he same nunuer bat quack docbrat- emp s to convince the public thit he mows mi re about surgery ih.m tin best dncate i nd experienced regular Bur- eonsby a ay Urn of per iitent sjf-ad- ertiuing In conclusion , a n-wspaper with mch a. roprietorship , edited , backed ant sur- > undvd aa The Omaha Republican B , the lis-ion of whicli is to serve the"intrest * f the defiant , insolent , remoneles and ipacious Union Pacific company- and ksi IVilter Hitchc-ick and ha factionand > denounce in unmeasured terms al who re not willing to become subservienj tools f b .th , Is in no sense an rgan of fas re- ublican party or the jifople , and foi such 3 one to prrclaim a warfare atraimt all io e wi o will not f How in its dirt. * trail , idle nonsense , and more fpeciallywhen attempt ) to read nutof the pirtynbout VJO good republica-.s in Dougl.v -"nty , : cause they refused to vote ifit' j RnZC irainee { ' * . K. Coutant ) for state s < nator. ter he had confesse 1 that he intr-ilnced d cli mrione < l tnron h the last levblture , a racne law which takes out of the tretnty of aahicuy , Louilaa county , ami trie iato of ibnuki , many thousands ot dollars tab year , all time to come , [ unless repealed ] , ad rnts ; m Iato the treasury ol the Union facie coma - a > . 'or an organ of a soallefF * railroad corpritlon 1 a little tinf of pQlItf.nans , wha hiv t bra ted the-6 many yrars between the ray-ril ed e hot"clit col parties , and t ruled wti both , 1 r.ener been true to either , -oprocl m ar- a/iir.st all who du not choo e to tomlt to dictation , and pretend to be the r > clo of : e republicanism , is supnrativeiy irpudent 1 .are to rrrcet with the merited rebtta of a B people- . t ho il-nooncnd me , as aa "Incrate ! , " > ecatne id not support Cou ant. If I owe Count , or > of trie proprietors cf The Kep.jbliui , any 't ft gratitude , i am not aware of it : J I am ehted to the repub lean party ft NebiAka , I not aware of it. I have uevtr held ny offi- position durirst my long resi'ienoin the- iv.ry and state of Xebra ka , eithciby n lion f tbe people or an appointmnS which i given we by the people or KepublUn par- it Nebraska It in true I have ben 'ho id man of on or two repuolkin offibls of ; on a ii y laboroiu wivts , f r whla I am ibted .o two perttnal friends , cattlB Is the. : nt of my indebtedness. , ST. A. D.