McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-06


law and have complied with it in
making improvements and propose to
hold them. All charges of fraud
with these claims are utterly false.
w. F. Schultheis Simon Kelly,
Aug. Schmidt Arthur Williams,
III. NJ. Oliver, Harry Clark,
o. H. NcNeal, James Wallace,
Harry Randall, Frank Slime,
A. w. Laird.
Nor can the Omaha Herald and Bee
now dismiss these witnesses by stigma
tizing them as "characterless bum
mers," as heretofore. Some of these
gentlemen are among the prominent
business men of Adams and Clay
counties, and all of them are free from
bummerism without Boosting better
average in all respects than the self
righteous liberals who try to ride them
down.
When the jove-like manajack, or
jackal, or jackass, from the Olympian
tripod of the Omaha Herald, decided
to bestow the mortal bolt which should
lay his victim low, he sent an agent of
the department of the government,
not engaged in measuring holy-water,
to get proof upon which to base the
charges demanded. The imbecile off
springs of cowardice, malice and inn
plication were no longer available. In
the face of demand for the facts,
even the vacancy in the editorship of
the Herald dimIy saw that something
more than the vaporings of hired
slanderer was wanted. This tale
bearer-a man paid by the great nation
for other services than licking the
sores of the democratic LAZARUS
went to McCook, Nebraska, found C.B.
Moore, took his statement, said he
would put it in the form of an affi-
davit, have it copied by another, lest
his handwriting should betray him,
present it to Moore without other
change to be sworn to by him. This,
as Moore supposed, was done, and
upon that supposition he swore to it
without further examination. Not so.
The coward, who dared not allow even
his handwriting to see the light-in
the opinion of MOore-caused him to
swear to what was false, by means of
material alteration of his original state
ment, made before or after the same
was sworn to by him, and if made be-
fore unknown to him when he swore
to it. The alteration was the addition
of this sentence: II mean James
Laird, the member of congress from
Nebraska" who Mr.. Moore now swears
che did not intend to bring into the
matter at all, as he did not believe he
was in any way to blame" So, and
in q manner comprehensive alone to
towards, scoundrels, and whiffits, did
this trinity of political swill vendors
procure the first affidavit of Moore. So
true is this that when Moore's atten-
ton is called to his first so-called state
ment under oath, he, in a second affi-
davit, promptly pulls down the whole
fabric Of conceit, idiocy and slor built
upon it.
But for the charges: They follow
here, having been made part of
Moore's affidavit on the cross-exami-
nation, and like the cloven foot in the
story of "The Devil and DIR. Horn
brook" they show for themselves. If
there ever was realization of the ia
BILE of the Ass in the Lions Skin, here
it is. The Herald played the Lion,
but showed the ASS. The cola
Podrida" opens with the charge:
That Laird said he "desired" cattle
grange" Suppose he did F.; could he,
by the strength of that desire, take
patent to 100 acres of the public land a.?
Will the Herald point us to the clause
in the statute, human or divine, where
we are commanded not to desire good
things? Barren desire wrongs
no one. Granted he desires it yet.
It's lawful, is it not? Laird would
introduce a bill to "lease all the vacant
public land in western Nebraska to
the stock men," That is false. The
writer of this heard what Laird said,
and that was not it. Perhaps you got
that statement from the man who
procured Moore's affidavit. The man
who denies his handwriting and can
not face the one whose honor he seeks
to assassinate is infamous among men
and the truth is not in him. What
Laird did say, was to ask why a bill
authorizing the leasing of the desert
and untillable land in western Ne
braska for grazing purposes, until
climatic changes should render it fit
for agricultural purposes, was not bet
ter for both the stock men and the
people, than the present way of deal