Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-22
TO g., NT. HLTCHCOCK.

Your impulsive outburst is pardon
able and at the same time dcplorable.
You have unwittingly gratt!ied the
malice of Fred Nye, a vindictive, dirty
little whelp, with a soul no larger than
pin-head and head the size of u nut
meg. You compel me to reassure you
in print what have vouched to you
verbally several years ago on an occas-
ion when the Republican charged that
/ had bounded your father to his
grave. The fact is that my feud
with your father was famed into flames
by Just such detestable creatures as
Fred Nye, who himself waged war upon
him politically. What wrote before
and during tho senatorial campaign of
1876 was true to the best OF my kuowl-
edge and belief. 1t was written in IL
defensive war waged against me by DO
litical cohorts supplied with money By
Jay Gould, and carried to the eX-
treme of a. plot concocted by
Paul Vandervoort and others
that materialized in murderous as
sault with slung shot, by IL powerful
negro who was liberated from the pcni-
oobpioiy bJ p bhiNch pioNoi Su tthN
handed in person to the assassin by
your late father. Such warfare has left
indelible impressions upon my skull,
and became part of the history of THE
BEE.
1t would be as impossible to write the
true history of TIE BEE without re-
calling the ordeal through which | had
to pass in trying to establish it, as it
would be to omit reference to the i'm
parchment of David Butler in history
of Nebraska. And yet Ex-Governor But
ler's children have no cause for hating
those who did their duty to the state in
deposing him from office.
Nobody can be justly held responsible
for the acts of his ancestors. | gave you
proof that no rancor cankered my heart
when I volunteered to assist you, as I
have other young men, in your first
effort to gain recognition in public life.
When you asked me to print the pros
pectus OF the World in THE BEE and to
announce that you would give Omaha
a cheaper and more desirable newspa-
per than THE BEE, / cheerfully gave
it as much prominence as if 1t had been
| u paid advertisement. When your
paper made its advent | gave it cordial
words of welcome. When | started THE
BEE the first note of it taken by the
Herald ana Republican was slanderous
announcement under sensational head,
that had been discharged as manager
by the telegraph company for embez-
zling its funds. And when Colonel
Dickey promptly denounced this report
as a libel retraction was stubbornly
refused.
While was rotten-egged and snow
cred with the vilest of epithets for years
| by local contemporaries you have re-
| ceived eutlemanly and generous treat
ment at my hands, and / have patiently
| ignored some of the most outrageous
| fit to make on me, often when my back
was turned during an absence hundreds
| of miles away.
| deplore as much as anybody that at
| the very moment when a disposition
has been manifested on all hands to
| harmonize and fraternize the news
paper men of Omaha, one vindictive
marplot should seek to embroil us in a
| proftless controversy. You doubtless
realize the mistake you have made in
calling me to account for a paragraph
incidentally inserted in the outline
history of THE BEE by a member of my
editorial staff. l hope that have salts
fled you and the public that L was in
spired by no malice in the publication