Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-22
The Party Lash ard Bloody
Shirt Waved With Equal
Vigor.
Banker Willard and His Breth-
rem Ready to Thrust Tneir
Fortune Into q Caucus,
Belle wing That an Overwhelming
Display Would Secure the
Contested Seat.
The Democrats Agree to Combine on
Two Men-The Ants Divided.
THE SABBATH IN LINCOLN

THE SABBATH IN LINCOLN.
SPECIAL Dispatch to TIKI BEE
SENATORIAL sCENks AND INCIDENTS.
LINCOLN, January 21.-The present
legislature is made up. for the most
part, Of men who do their own think
ing and voting. They have come
down here with the full understanding
that they will be held responsible for
their accounts and do not seem dis
posed to yield to outside pressure or
dictation. Those who have never
been subjected to the ordeal can
hardly comprehend what 1t means for
q man to stand fesriessly by his
honest conviction from early dawn
until long after Midnight. Almost
every member of the legislature is
BOUNDED BY TRAINED TEMPTERs
who make seductive appeals to his
ambition for place and power, and as.
sail his honesty by holding out in.
duoements of ~peeuniary reward.
Where they fail to play upon avarice
or ambition, they appeal to partisan
prejudice.
The crafty corporation managers,
though their editors and retainers are
jealo usly swinging the party whip
over the heads OF republicans, and
telling them that they must abide by
the choice of a republican caucus,
when they we'll know that a caucus,
through their instrumentslity will give
them what they could not get by the
lndiyidaal choice of members.
IN THIS FIRST PLACE
there is no law for buying a mans
vote in o caucu either with promises
of off ,e, lucrative employment or
money; in the next place men who
enter the caucus do not feel the same
responsibility and restraint because at
best their action dose not &C upon the
record, and if perchsuce the majority
DEGREES that they must support q mar
for senator whom they would not dare
to vote FOR II left r. their
own choice, they go out of
tho caucus with the excuse
"Nhy, we had to do it because we
we're pledged to stand by the caucus
nominee"
The railroad organ in this city
makes g frantic appeal to the seventy
republicans to rally round n man,
no matter who he may be, and elect
him. As republicans they are In duty
bound to abide by the ruling of king
CAUCUS.
THE MONOPOLY CRGANIsT
swings the red rag in feont of the re.
publican bull by asserting that the
democracy and anti-monopolists are
all consolidated. This Is In the face
of the fact that neither thu
democrats nor the anti.monopolistl
have as yet been able to
agree among themselves upon
one man; aud even If they were con.
solidated could not elect without the
support of republicans. There Ger
tainly does not appear to be the re-
hottest show of eleoting q democrat.
but 1t is inevitable with the pressure
that Is being brought that q republican
CAUCUS will choose q monopolist. Il
1t is not Zoe Willard 1t will be some
man who can command the support oj
the railroads while he is masq uerad
ing as an snti.monopolist.
THE THREE FoURTHS RULE
by which the scheming railroad attor
neys are trying to inveigle the anti
monopoly republicans into Q caucul
will be no barrier. Whenever any can
didste commands thirty-6ve votes il
u those who support the mino
candidates will go over In a body, ant
before they realize it will be hound t,
support a man whom they never woult
have voted for had they bsen left t.
their personal choice.
II will be q very easy matter Il
pool the railroad vote in Q caucu
on one man, but 1t woul'
be no easy matter to elect such q MAJ
in the open field. Quite q number o
republicans elected on anti.monopol,
pledges have all along professed tina
they propose to vindicate the republi
a party by casting their votes onl.
for a man who Is sound on the railwa,
issue, but most of these men
HAVE FALLEN MO THE TRAP
laid for them by sham anti.monopo
lists, and are now voting for candi
dates who are not one whit sounder o.
the main issue than Joe MI
lard. Had these msl com
to the front at the beginning an
cast their votes for an svowed ou
and out antl-monopolist of republics
sntecedents like General Common
Captain Sickle or even Crounse, the
would command respect, and Nigh
by this time have forced an election
1t Is not too late yet, however, unlef
these men abandon their individua
choice by tying themselves down to
caucus candidate whoever that migl
be.
The situation sumDed up il simpl
this: The five leading republicans
Willard, Thsyer, Saunders, Cjwi
and Henderson mustered Ga member
iastSsturdsy rangingffom s to IL vote
for each. They all feel hopeful yet
carrying off the prizs. The leadln
ones are willing 10 stake their fortune