Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-12
n sPEAKERsHIP.


The election Of Hon. Allen Field as speaker
Of the house is recognized by a majority Of
those who know him to be q just recognition
Of an able man. He is q lawyer Of good re
pute and an excellent parliamentarian. He
is denounced from some Omaha sources, but
this bitterness may find ample cause in the
fact that he is a Lincoln man and will do all
in his power to secure another appropriation
this winter ID carry on the work Of building
the new capitol. In regard to this,
however, common sense would hardly sug.
gest a criticism of Mr.. Field, He is
pledged TO his constituents to use all honor
able means to that end and of course would do
30 whether he vera speaker or not. Again,
the proposition to appropriate money to carry
on the work already commenced, is o reason
able one. OF course due caution shoild al.
ways be taken against a reckless and unneces-
sary expenditure of public funds, but our
state house is lying in an unfinished condition
and economy would suggest that it be finished
in q reasonably short time.
The charge, too, is made that Mr.. Field lisa
railway capper and that he will play into the
hands of those who dictate terms for the cor
counties composing the Third congressional
district held a caucus, and after surveying the
situation concluded to support him for the
place, Many of the members of that caucus
were strong anti-monopolists andrepresent M
auti-monopolist constituency, but some Of Mr..
F;alj's M r,,nat fr;aplu ypara ,,,ut S,,,b MAN os
these. They took him at his word and salts.
fed themselves that he was the best man for
the place. At this distance and at this tim,
it Is not possible to say how accurate these
men were in their estimate. - Fremont Tribune
The Fremont tribune Is the home or.
gan of Congressman Dorsey and there ID
no doubt whatever that this eulogy of the
new speaker was inspired, If not actually
dictated, by him. Mr.. Dorsey was al
Lincoln to exert his personal influence
upon members of the legislature in be-
half of Field, aud he now wants to justi-
fly his outrageous conduct In placing il
the speakers chair a man who is notori'
ously the representative of the worst ele'
ments of the republican party in this
state. From whom does Mr.. Dorsey de-
rive his knowledge concerning Mr.. Fields
fitness for the position, and why does he
attempt to mislead the public regarding
the true character of this man and tn e
disreputale clique which brought him
forward.
Mr.. Field Is not an unknown man. He
made his record two years ago in the
house as Boss Stout's right hand bower
and one of the most plant tools of the
railroad bosses. He fathered almost
every job and steal which emanated from
the ring of plund erers around the state
capital. and voted against every measure
calculated to restrict the railroads in
their rapacity and to protect the people
against their exactions. All the talk
about the captiou's opposition OF Omaha
to a Lincoln man Is mere chaf, and no.
body knows this better than MI. Dorsey.
Had the man hailed from Fremont with
such a record and surrounded by such In
iuences we should have made the same
protes'. Mr.. Dorsey knows that the
chief fuglers ct Lincoln, barring himself
and one or two others of fair
reputation, were Glenn Ken
dali, the school land shark, and Tom
Kennard and Boss Stout, both of whom
are notorious corruptionists of every leg
islature that has met in Nebraska since
she has become a. state. That Third dis
trict caucus was q sham and a snare. Why
should the slr members of the
Third district prefer Mr.. Field,
Ia - lawyer with an unsavory
record, who lives In the first district, to
MI. Nettletop, a farmer of unimpeach-
abe character, living In the second dis
trict? If any anti-monopoIy republican
who took part in that caucus did vote for
Field it was because he did not know
him, and was deceived into it by Mr..
Dorsey or by some designing party who
imposed upon his confidence. 1t Is by
just such confidence games, played by
men In the sacred name of republican
Ism, that the party is delivered into the
hands of the corporations and their nat
ural allies, the plundereru, jobbers and
ringsters, who make use of speakers for
their own nefarlous ends and to the Diet.
| riment of the neonle.