Omaha daily bee., 1882-11-17
THE NEWS FROM HOLT.
Ignomnious Defeat IF the Val
entine Brige de in the Ban
ner County.
A Foul Gang of Political Vultures
Buried Ont of Sight,
Correspondence OF THR BEH.

Correspondence Of THB BEE.
0NEnL CRY, November 15.-
"Have you heard the news from
Holt" / understand from THE BEE
of the 10th inst. that w. d. Mat
thews, who publishes The frontier
at this place, went to the trouble oi
making the above inquiry of you by
telegraph, and in order that you may
be able to enlighten him a little, l
give you all the facts.
Holt county gave M. K. Turner a
majority of twenty-five over E. K.
Valentine. Turner, it is we'll known,
was the republican anti monopoly
candidate for congress in the Third
district, and received his support from
a class of republicans who scorned to
be bossed by the putrid mass of cor
ruptionists who undertook to trample
on the rights of the honest voters of
this congressional district. The re-
publicans of this county endorsed
Turner, and despised that man ofmany
frauds, Valentine, and his tool, Mat
thews. There are some men whom it
it is better not to have on your side,
and Matthews, the politician of many
creeds, Ia one of those. In proof If
this proposition 1 submit the following
facts:
The last time Valentine competed
for the vote of this county he carried
it by $50 majority out of a vote of
1923, running adead of the state ticket
several votes. In those days the poll
tics Of this country was carried on
FAIRLY AND soUARELY,
no b~ulldozing, no choking nor sup.
preston of opinions, every one was
allowed that to which he was entitled
"a right to be heard. But that wat
not the way in which the rotton bass
wood of the Elkhorn valley wanted
things done. He was not used to that
kind Of business, honesty. He in
stinctly loves fraud. For him the
stolen apples are the sweetest. Val
entine must have the primaries stolen.
So he hires Mathews, the piIferer, to
steal them. Val paid the price in ad-
vance by giving the postoflce to
Mathews, the migrate mendicant,
against the earnest protestations of
every citizen of this place. Mathews
wal to deliver the county ut this last
election to his patron. How we'll the
party of the second part fulfilled his
part of the contract remains now to be
seen. Like the evil one on the noun
tain, he offered to deliver things
which he did not possess. He and his
tools
STOLE THE CAUCUssEs
and the convention, but they could
not steal the votes of the people. Yes,
Mathews, the b~lackleg, stole the pri-
maries. That they actually did.
But what was the RESULT
What2 The!result was that the people,
the sovereign people, rose in their
might, and at the ballot-box admins.
tered such a scathing rebuke to those
would-be traffickers of their rights of
suffrage, that If they were not the
most abandoned characters they would
bury themselves from the sight of the
honest s~uffragists whom they tried to
betray. Now, what does the rotten
bass wood Of the Elkhorn valley think2
Has he reason to rejoice over his bar
gain with the rum. suckers?
LOOK AT THE FIGURES
and see. Out of a vote of 1000 or
thereabouts for the entire state repub.
lican ticket, Valentine got 415 votes.
I do not take the unorganized terri
tory west Of us into account as the
citizsns Of that country hive petit.
toned for an organization, which is
likely to be granted by the next legis-
larure, and, besides, that territory
figured but little In elections previous
to last year, and hence could not be
consistently used in instituting a com
parison between the Votes of Holt
county two or three years ago and the
present year; but even il l did take
that country into account, the result
would be little varied. But to re-
turns. Out of q vote of about 1000
for the state ticket at this falls cleo
tions Val got 415 votes, wherein pre-
vious to his purchase Of Mathews, the
gambler, he (Val) ran ahead of the
state ticket.
This result ought to make anyone
feel joyful. Who ought not to feel
satisfied with such a largo gain2
The vote of this county stood this
fall as follows: For republican state
ticket, except Clark, 1000; for Tur-
ner, 437; for Valentine, 415; tor
Munger, 1856.
Thus you see Val. falls about 500
votes behind the state ticket, and
twenty-five votes behind Turner.
The county ticket put in the field
by the Matthews outfit was also most
ANONYMOUSLY BURIED.
b. s Gillespie, who received the
nomination for member of the legisla-
ture at the Matthews rump conven-
ton, experienced such a severe
chastisement that he, too, is in
gloriously buried with the vile gang
that tried to foist him on the people.
When the honest voters of this county
learned of the villainy perpetrated by
the Matthews outfit aErhs equity con-
y~ention, they called q mass conven-
ticn, nominated a county ticket and,
although they had but three weeks in
which to make q canvass, yet carried
the county by such a
sweeping majority that the
corrupt ~iguoramuses that aped control
of thu county were entirely ~bewildersd
Both Val aud GILLESPIE may well say,
sob, deliver us from our friends. 4"
Let us see what the anti-corruptionists
Of this county have done. They
HAVE WIPED oUT
one of the foulest gangs of political
unlhnrnn that eyer cnrRhn a nnnnfV.