Omaha daily bee., 1882-10-26
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Tf Any OF You Men Save Grievances.
why Don't You Tell Me7"
TEKAMAH, BURT Co, NsB,
October 20, 1882.

~ wv bhANNA " ~ 1
Presumipg upon your valusbl,
space, l take the liberty of replyin,
to the following article which appea,e
In the Republican of the 21st, und
the head of state politic,:
After reviewing his record in con
gress Mr.. Valentine said: 'Now, gen
tlemep, l stand upon my rec jrd. ]
have always been aud always shall be,
upon the side Of the people. IL |
have committed n solitary act tina,
you consider against tn, peoples in.
terests--a vote favorable to railroads,
or other monopolies--please be &c
Kind as to now point it out to me.
am willing to hear your griev ,nces, il
any you have" Wssn't this mani,
Was it not fart Here Il. X. V,len.
tine, whom behind his back, when he
had no chance for defence, mon in the
hall had charged him with being all
that was vensl and corrupt moncp.
olist, q railroad serf-here he stood
before them inviting personal investi.
CATION. Here was the golden oppor.
tunity tor nj. II. Cleveland, s. NJ
Benner. II. NJ. Uttley, G, w. Nc.
Clure and Neil Brennan to show To
their fellow citizens what Val.
entine was; to prove their
charges to the humiliation of
Valentine and his friends to pin
Valentine down fine and show him up.
Did they embrace this great chance
for killing Valentine, politically, in
Holt county, They dare no nor did
not open their mouths. They were as
silent u mummies, and drew them
selves into as small q space as possible.
They showed the white feather, o
ing themselves towards and malicious
vili6ers. It would seem that here
after they would keep their mouths
shut, but not so. With Valentine
away they will continue their dirty
warfare. Let them do 30. 1t matters
little. The people of this district will
endorse ''the best congressman Ne
braska ever had" in an emphatic man.
ner, burying Turner and his lying
crowd beneath an avalanche Of votes,
and Holt county will stand close to
head of the Valentine column
O'Neill Frontier.
In answering the above I, for my
self, propose to take this great man at
his word as expressed in his reply to
the Honorable M. X. Turner, and not
ask him to furnish audiences for his
opponents and az l understood that to
be a Valentine meeting l kept my pro-
per place Chat of q listener.l
Another reason for my silence was
that during the entire talk of Mr.. Val.
en'ine l completely failed to find any
argument whatever. The language of
this great man for the hour and a half
which he held the fl lor was like a great
boy pleading with his parents for for.
givenessU and another trial.
Another reason for my silence and
to the people of Holt county a sufi.
cient one was that the opening SEN
tencs of his talk was an absolute false.
hood which Mr.. Valentine we'll knew
as also every person in the house at
the time.
Another reason why 1 kept my
place at that time is that I did not
desire to make myself appear like one
of those long cared animals upon
which Balaam travelled "a olden times,
which would be djsgraced by conipar-
ing the writer of the article to.
Neither did 1 desire to fill the place
which properly belonged to that ven.
cradle individual.
And to finally answer this article l
will say for the benefit of all, while l
make no pretentions a. a public
speaker, I will meet either Mr.. VAL
entine or the person who wrote that
article, or any of their friends, at any
time and place they will name, on ten
days notice, prepared to prove every.
thing that l have ever said, and four
times as much.
And while they want to hear from
me, let Mr.. Valentine or his bench.
men tell what became of the $34, 600
and over of mine which he helped
to take out of the government
treasury and presented, yes, gave
gratuitously to the clerks of the house
of representatives last July, also the
$4,000 and over given as a premium
for polygamy. Let them also explain
how much it cost Mr.. Valentine to
have the bogus democratic tickets
printed and distributed in Cedar
county, by which he defrauded T. l..
Grltfey out of his election for Judge
and them had the audacity to brag
about it; let them tell by what hon.
est o this man Valentine swim
died the settlers of Burt county out
of thousands of dollars; let them tell
why MI. Valentine appointed q Ger.
tain man to the position of register of
a land office during his last trip
through the district; let them show
one single instance during the past
year where Mr.. Valentine has done
one single thing or attempted to do
one thing for the good of
the people or in accordance
with their expressed wishes, and
they do this there will
some possible chance for them to
think of his election. As the matter
now stands, Hon. M. X. Turner is fast
gaining ground among a liberty.loving
people, and will be the next congress-
man elected to represent the great
Third district of Nebraska in our
national congress, at least he will
carry his own county, which Valen.
tine will not do, judging from present
Believing That the voters
will SC de eide on November next, and
being ready at any time, az stated, to
prove what ] have said, / remain
yours for Hon. M. X. Turner, first,
last and all the time.