Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-29
The Railroad Organs Jubi ant
Over a Temporary
Victory.
The Secret Ballot ana the
Bari Go Hand ia Hand
for Willard,
But Final Success is Far Re-
moved From a Dead
Certainty.
The Union of Democrats and Ants
Impossible Br swb satin.
Attor
TIE TRAP o. TRICKS TIERS.
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TIE TRAP o. TRICKS TIERS.
Special Dispatch to 9uH BEp.
LILCoLN, january %. -When the
legislature convened quite n numher
OF republicans, who had been elected
on anti monopoly p!edges, declared
positively that they never would cutter
a senatorial caucus, because they did
not propose to surrender their Judi
vidual liberty to the dictates Of the
majority which might nominate a
pronounced monopolist. Later in the
day there were filly thirty members
who declared most emphatioslly that
they would nog enter a caacu as long
as Willard wss liable to be it's nom
inee. Up to within three days a very
large majority were outSpoken against
a secret vote by ballot, but
II AsH oil THE R LEADERS,
and the pressure of candidates and
their hackers has finally driven every
republican into the caucus, and to-day
The railroad organ in this city declared
that king Caucus IL supreme. Froma
republican standpoint there will be no
serious objection to q caucus, because
it affords the only chance Of excluding
from the choice all those who are not
strictly members Ct the party. Ftom
the outset, however, 1, was well I'm.
derstood the caucus was to 10 the
means of whipping into support Cf Oh.
noxious candidates; that olaSs OF re-
publicans who had q consciencs and
were not to be bought with M moy or
D promises of patronage. HID the re.
publicans enforced O REQ Jrd d vote, 20
that no man who sid on o,nla 50
back to his constituents without
TuE BRAND OF TREASON
upon him the proceeding might have
received the sanction fir ,m the reput.
%licsns, but now the jobbers and trick
sters, can have it all their own way.
They eau man u ate men with no
risk o. being tou I'D ont or ~pun,snei,
because 1t ID no crime To buy votes in
a Caucus, and the scourdrei wSo els
himself escapes e'e,tion when the
= work ia done, while those who are
honest wilt e as ii lble TO the charge of
q bribery rs he. Those who believe
that Willard has shown his whole
etrength, are very much mistaken.
{ Up to Friday night he'had no cha &C,
because Only twenty-five men hhvs
n been willing to put them selves On
record az his supporters, bat now the
: way is open for thos= who sneak be-
hind the secret ballot TO
GET WHAT THEY HAVE LoNGED FOX
o Once the work is done and nomina-
tions made thGre are few men cour-
C sgeouB enough to bolt king caucus aud
even If twenty republicans should
bolt Millard's managers boast they
can fill their places with democrats.
In the absence of a large majority
t. Of the members the city has been
comparatively quiet during the day
aud the U. p. train tonight brought
only the leading candidates who had
gone to Omaha for a breathing spell.
While everything is comparatively
quiet there is an under current OF
activity that will break out perhaps 10
. a new qrarter. 1t is not at all certain
b yet that king caucus will rule. Many
of those who have been taken in IN.
der heavy pressure, Friday, nights sre
now
FESTIVE N UNEASY
because they see they have been en-
trapped.
The prospect Of q union between
o the anti. monopolists and democrats is
y not very promising. The democrats
have all along insisted either upon q
y straight democrat or upon q man who
has been q democrat. 1t Is now clearly
mahifest that 40 democrat can get the
entire ami monopoly vote, and It is
y even less probably that an anti-mon-
opoly republican could get more than
hall OF the democratic vote. There
x wal a time last week when q union Of
- these forces could have bsen effected
! with comparative safety, had the
10 democratic candidates not been too
sanguine for carrying the day for
,, themselves.
CITIZEN MAsoS'S CONDUCT
at the special RAILROAD committee lie
1i liable To bring ap the pertinent ques-
p, ton whether every ctti2en in Nebres-
III ka has a right to intsrposa objections
10 the investigation aud browbeat wit
nesses who arc simply called to give
ia information oancernng the manage
81 ment Of the railways and their rela-
/ ton to the public Ii citizen Mason
q Is retained as an et.orney of the rail-
g. roads he could got q hearing at the
\. proper tune in their bshalf but when
he gneaks bahind the cloak of a clti-
zen he assumes a role that he cannot
sustain.
rnn finland 70 thu Waak and CON.