Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-02-03
Cheering Words to Senator Boy
nOldS, the Fighting
Anti-MOnOp.
-"Hold High the Flag Of Reform
and Well Stand to
Your Back"
Some Interesting Reminis.
ceuces of the Paddock
Senatorial Camp aign.
"A Shower OF Mstaphorio Rockets
fccm tbs State Of Bsatrios.

other pub!is men who lack experience
in legislative matters, commit some
blunderr, but he is sound on the main
Issue, and has the satisfaction of the
approval, not only of his own constit-
uents, but Of most of the anti mo
nopolist people all over the state
During the past week he has received
letters from every section of the state,
endorsing his course on the railroad
question, and encouraging him to con.
tinue the good work.
The following specimens, among
many others, show the interest mani.
tested on all hands in the legislative
investigation and proposed regulation
of the railroad traffic.
BEATRICE, January 20. You letter
of the 24Gh inst. received. l wrote
you, because I saw you were taking an
active part in the cause Of the people
against their oppressors-the corpora
tions, instead of writing to my own
representatives who are mere political
nonenties, or the senator who is a live
stock trader and special favorite and
pet of the B & M. r r and fs r
from being proper legislative timber.
Even at this distance from the sta' Q
capital, can hear the booming of the
cannon, proclaim'ng through the many
voiced press, we are in the midst of q
GREAT BATTLE OF PRINCIPLES,
we are struggling with the slavery
question again, the slavery of fifty
millions of people, black and white
the rich, of course, excepted and the
longer the corporation powers of this
country defer settlement the worse
1t will be for them. They own the
two old parties and through them rule
and administer the government in all
Its departments, and If revolution can
not be accomplished quietly and
peacefully and government resume
business on Its original basis, dem.
ocracy instead of tim mocracy, the "thlm.
BILE rigging" concern of rich mans
government based on per Jury, bribery,
treachery and ignorance, then indeed
Is the bloody spectre of revolution be-
fore US.
submit that it Is utterly impossible
for social order or perpetual govern
inens 20 Exist among an intelligent
people fred with q love of liberty,
while the breach between the enor-
NOUS wealth of the fsw and the mon
strous poverty of the many continues
to widen. The people must have an
interest In the government which ia
theirs or they will destroy 1t, or de.
stroy the men who are perverting 1t.
Whoever may be elected United
States senator from Nebraska, one
characteristic he should possess above
all others. He should be
TRUE TO THE PEOPLE.
Smartness or rather sharpness Ia
not exactly what is needed. The
penitenti.. ..ry is full Of sharp "fellows'
and if were representative OF the
Nebraska legislature before l woulc
lend myself either directly or indi
reotly to elect hypocritical presendel
or one whose antecedent history wa:
not a sufficient guarantee, withou
any pledges as to his subsequent
course, would cit out the remainder
of the forty days session, vote th'
necessary appropriation bills, g
home and the people would sustain
me. Wh.t va want now is men. no
monkeys in the shapeof -"no. E. P
Ingersoll, the gubernatoria, ''~di
date of the anti monopolists, nigh
do, but the old stock adopts in tn
art of treschery never.
WELL DO I REMEMBER.
when A. s. Paddock, my next doc
neighbor, was elected in 1875. TIL
flowers may bud and blossom in spring
may wither and fade in autumn an,
time, but a span of eternity grow din
with age before / shall forget tn
clarion shouts that rent the pure al
of heaven at the news that Mr.. Pad
dock was elected. The starry fla
symbol of my country's libsrty (in thi
case the base symbol of otfice) was IN
furled to the evening breeze, my ear
were saluted by the csnnon's openin
roar as we'll as by the soft symphonic
of voluptuous music, sky-rocket
kissed the welkin with delight an
nature seemed never to tire in vie
Ing with art that a senator dispense
was born in Beatrice. Ii meant offic
for Ashby, Office for Griggs, office fc
Harrington, otfice for Coleman, new
paper patronage for little Brown an
disappointment to as many more di
comftted hopefuls.
NOBODY ELSE WAS INTERESTED
or cared; and we'll do 1 renemb
with the distinctness of yesterds
when the sad tidings came dartir
over the wires that Mr.. Paddock VI
defeated In 1881; that this gre
Beatrice dispenser was no more; tn
his senatorial sun had set. to rise
more; schools of sorrowipg officsholde
crestfallen, came home to roost The
was nc merriment or revelry
that memorable occasion. All W
still you could have heard Il
crack Of doom. 1t was
II the republic had died. The
was no providing for any person, al
S. A. Paddock had himself to be pr
vlded for.
CongratulAting you In your effol
for the right, ! have tarried too 10