Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-08
CONGRESSMAN WEAVER.
A Few Pages From That Gentleman's
Record.
FAILS Cry, October G, 1884.

FALLS CRY, October 6, 1884.
To the Editor of THE BEE.
Under tho head of special Telegram
from Falls City, October Cd, appears {
garbelled and n sided report of thu
meeting addressed here by Senator Var
| Wyck and A. j. Weaver. Senator Var
Wyck did not say he endorsed all Of
Weavers actions, but admitted thai
Weaver had on two occasions voted fol
anti-monopoly measures. In the good
ness of the senator's heart, and anxious
to compliment his colleague, he in q gen
eral way, said he believed Weaver meant
to be right. But the senator la making
a serious mistake in giving any aid OF
countenance to this man.
Weaver has been everything by turns.
Raised q democrat. he has been by turns
a republican and g~reenbacker. Now he
is trying to pass himself off, with Van
Wyck's assistance, for en- anti-monopolist.
But whatever Mr.. Weaver's profession
may be, it is utterly devoid Of principle.
Nominated, according to his own organ,
by Allen Field, seconded by Church
Howe, and eulogized by John NJ. Thurs-
ton, one a B. & NJ, the other an N. p.
copper and the third a U. p. attorney
and lobbyist. Does any sane man believe
that railroad corporations send their po-
litical attorneys to assist in nominating
anti-monopolists2 We who live here
know Weaver better. We remember
when he issued an injunction to the B.
g. M. r.. r. to keep the M p. from get
ting into our town, and then skipped be-
fore daylight. Who has not heard his de-
cision wherein county treasurers were en-
joined from collecting taxes of the B. &
M. amounting to hundreds of thousands.
In short, here at home Mr.. Weaver is
talked of as belonging to the B. & M.
A nice man to ask anti-mopolists to vote
for.
Mr.. Weaver has received since his first
entrance into politics in salary alone,
Outside of plunder), $4,000. He has
travelled for years, on railroad passes,
worth to him hundreds of dollars per
He has sent his family and
their families by the score on passes over
the country, and by so doing made them
his fast friends. And what has he done
to repay the railroads for these favors
say nothing Of their support in
him into office2 Weaver
never paid the railroads any
thing as o shipper or patron.
Why then these favors amounting to
Thousands of dollars to Mr.. Weaver from
the railroads. Was it for decisions rem.
dered on the bench? Why those favors
now? Is it for expected favors in the
halls of congress- l leave the reader to
ponder, and especially all true anti-mo-
nopolists. Senator VanWyck, when
asked in regard to Chas. Ell. Brown, of
Omaha, Viewers opponent, and with
whom the senator served three sessions
in the state senate, said in his Falls City
speech in the presence of Weaver, that
nopolist, a man of brains, honor and in
and that no man in the state was
held by him in higher regard than Mr..
@. Ell. Brown, of Omaha. This is more
the senator said in favor
Weaver, though he employed
WORDS to say it in.
Senator Van Wyck came in daily con
with.Brown on the floor of the same
room for three sessions, running through
six years. OF Mr.. Weaver the senator
knows nothing more than anybody can
learn by reading the Congressional Rec
ord. Weaver has tried hard to get up
an anti-monopoiy boom through Van
Wyck, but hat one declaration as to
Browns standing let's the wind out of
sails, and before this campaign is
over the people of this district will have
occasion to hear the record of Mr.. Wea-
yer as it is, and not as q one.sided affair
up and delivered by Weaver him
self. But this is already longer than |
expected at the outset, and l will close,
reserying a complete history of that SON
gressional cipher for another time.
r. p.