Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-22
POLITICAL %HYP0CRITES.
The Professions Of Republican
Politicians Examined by the
Light Of Practice.
The Glass Of Railroad Warts
Put in Office by Valen,
tine -Grand Islands
Greatness.
Correspondence OF TIE Be.

Oorrospondence OF IHE bEk-
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., May 81 -
The republicans of this county prom.
ised everything last fall during the
anvas that any reasonable anti.
monopolist could demand. They
claimed that the republican party
had done and was willing to do every.
thing In it's power for the many as
against the privileges Of the few. To
have heard the eloquent appeals Of
w. Il. Michael, Of The Grand Island
Times, one would have thought that
the republican party had always been
q strong nti'monopoly organization,
and was the only party that could
solve the anti monopoly question.
Mr.. Michael himself might have been
sincere and have fully believed that
all he claimed was true, bat the party
Itself since last fell has not proved
bis claims to be true. The action of
the republicans last winter on all
railroad Legislation was not Just what
1t should have been to support the
claim OF the party that 1t Ia and
always has been an anti monopoly
party. While some of the repub.
licans In the Legislature were Ia favor
of good railroad legislation, most of
them vera either In faver of indiffer-
ent railroad legislation or none at all.
The evidence to prove this is fdll
and complete.
One of the best proofs If the insln-
certify of the republican party In Its
profession of anti.monopoly is fJuod
In the character of the appointments
to federal Office made by the party.
Take the laird congressional dfitrict
as an example. There ia hardly an
appointment in the diatrlct but who
is, and has been for years, a tool of
tbs railroads. Congressman Vslen-
mne has Invariably appointed this
class of men to office We we're told
by the republican speaker here last
fsll, that Mr.. Valentine was entirely
independent of the railroads, but whom
an appointment 10 made by him it is
q man taken from the railroad ranks,
a man who has been a capper for the
railroads for years. O. l. Howell,
who has Just baen appointed postmas-
ter here BY Valentine, Is that kind OF
q msn. He has been the blind tool
of such men "a Chsuncy Wiltse and
George II Thummel for years he
has been connected with the railroad
for years, and is one of the few idiotic
railroad csppers hera who rail ~ aDy
mau who claims that the people have
a right to regulate, by Law, railroad
rates. Republicans may tax about
the rights Of the people. but When Il
comes to making laws and filling tnt
offices the railroad attorneys and cap
pers run tho machine every time.
Grand Island Is booming. TIL,
county Is rapidly filling up, SO this
third-olass lands which nobody want
ed q year ago arc eagerly sought aftel
now.
Money has been subscribed for
two-story brick hospital, and worl
will begin on 1t this season. tn,
Sisters of St. Francis will have charg,
of Ii, and it will be run on the sam,
plan as the st. Joseph hospital o
Omaha.
A great deal of rain has fallen, ant
the weather has been too cold for corr
planting, yet q good deal has bsei
planted aud is mp, doing nicely. Corr
and oars will be the staple crop here
More attention will be paid to stool
of all kinds. Thousands of dollar
have been and are being invested II
sheds, barns and corralg for stock
raising, and 1t will not be long err
Hall county will take first premium
In S~horthorns, Attorneys and fnel,
bred horses, ~ she has on sgricultu.
raj displays. John Former has a her
of fine Attorneys and Shorthorns
and MI. A. s. Patrick has one of tn
finest and most promising Hambleton
Ian stations in the west.
Within five years hall county vii
have herds of as fine csttle and stable
of a. fine horses a. are to be foun
west of the Missouri. Come and see
Mr.. Editor, for yourself, some time
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