Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-11
THE THIRD DISTRICT.
A Lively Protest from the Home of
ClarksOn.

SCHUYLER, August 10.-Major Clark
sons man Friday is very much incensed
and seriously objects to the epithet given
him by THE BEE. Mac is comparative
stranger in this district. He came to
Schuyler recently and ever since his ar
rival trained with the wrong crowd. One
of that crowd is Fridays man "Crusoe,"
alias T. S. Clarkson. These fellows have
made 1t their business to run the prima-
ries in town and county in the interest
of the machine and carefully exclude the
kickers of two years ago. Now THE BEE
may not be directly interested in the
"Bloody Third" but indirectly it has an
interest, and if it can prevent the nomina-
ton of a man inferior to the present In
cumbent, or if it can Illustrate the scheme
of the railroad directors to smuggle in
one of their tools, 1t will have the ever
lasting gratitude of every honest republi-
can in the Third district.
Of all the small fsh in the congress
sional frying-pan this man Clarkson is
the smallest. He has neither the knowl-
edge nor ability ner training for this
office. Even as business man he is
pronounced by all who know him as i'm
l shall give you at some other time his
tory of his business career; for the pres
ent it will suffice to state that the major
don't sail any more under his own
initials, but prefers to do business under
the name of M. B. Clarkson. His
numerous friends in Dakota regret this
change very much. AS a politician, he
is one of the ringmasters, and in so
hurrahed delegation for Valentine
against the express wishes of two-thirds
of the party. AS public orator, he
made his first debut in Fremont two
years ago bv delivering a harangue,
using the vilest language.
He stumped this county for Valentine,
denouncing Turner traitor and demo-
crat. Then he went to Hastings, where
he achieved some notoriety by bringing
in resolution eensuring Postmaster
General Gresham for the removal of that
political hummer, Paul Vandervort.
This was the first and only great public
effort of his life. Speaking of Wander
wort reminds me of the striking SINH
larity in the makeup of the character of
these two great men: "Your General
Paul. and "Our Major Thad."
Both are mediocre men, with any
amount of cheek, brazen impudence
and overbearing arrogance, which
qualities, when we'll combined,
and blended, will pass with some people
pie for brilliancy and dash. They all
work the "hail-fellow, well met trick" for
all that is in it. They treat the boys
with sort of condescending familiarity,
slap Jim and Jack on the back, tell old
yarns, and do most anything just for the
sake of getting their name up as s'one of
the boys" They both use the Grand
Army for political stepping stone. They
both held government positions and
both were bounced. Your Paul, howev-
Or, is general" our Thad is only
major. There is where the
similarity stops. Our Thad is out of
Job and wants an Office to retrieve his
broken fortunes; a congressional seat
preferred, but if needs be, he will not
refuse land or postoffice, or even post
Colfax county will doubt
ess give him their delegation out of mere
even if they do not want him.
There are plenty of good men of supe-
rior qualities in the Third district, and it
Is TO be hoped that our next convention
will select for.it candidate not 'one of
The boys" but man with clean record
and one who has the ability and integrity
10 represent the interests of the citizens
't the Third district 'SIxTY-SIx."