Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-31

the country, even at the cost =, iyD life. An
hour or two afterward Matthews advanced
TO the polls. A friend handed him
straight republican ticket folded
so as 10 not DISCLOSE ~
character Matthews opened II, however,
and, holding IL by the end, handed IT to tne
OF the Judges, who took the ballot in such q
way that every one who stood near coGid
read IL. At that instant democratic inspec-
tor, at q distance OF eighteen teet, leveied
double barrelled shotgun at him and fired:
Over forty buck shot entered Matthews
body. IL almost cut him in twain,
The brutality OF the bulldozers did not END
here. THE lifeless body was permitted TO lie
in the room where II fell, but the door was
locked. Instantly the news Of the Tragedy
it reached the home of Matthews, an
confined to her bed foI some
time started out to see the
result of the report of the gun shot she
said she knew by intuition that her father
was killed. She was refused admlttance TO
the room where Matthews was confined, but
a relative burst the door open and admitted
her. The murderer marched around town
all day with his shot gun and defed interier.
ence. AS reward he was elected mayor OF
the city
The Young man described above as apply
ing for the position of United States marshal
Is the son of Print Matthews, and although q
favorable comparson with that oil his rather
OUR ovERwoRKED CoNGREssMEN.
The trials and tribulations of the con-
gressmen who nave staid in washington
since the adjournment of congress TO look
after appointments are little known outside
the circle of their immediate friends, who
see them racing about the government de-
partments during the day and, after office
hours, dragging themselves homeward, only
to meet mail of one or two hundred letters
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answer. This work usually keeps them up
until the small hours, vet constituents VINO
have vote TO cast one or two years hence
must not be sighted.
Your correspondent found one OF these
truly hard-worked men at his desk the other
evening. The members whole appearance
showed fatigue, his collar had wilted from
the heat of the little office which formed
his sanctum, his hair was disheveled, and
he looked like the last rose of summer, w:lted
and about to fall apart. Strewn about the
| room were stacks of pamphlets, comprising
| a variety of congressional documents that
| were yet to be distributed throughout his
| district while the desk was piled up for
couple OF feet. with letters, those
| unanswered only, the communications that
| had been dispatched being deposited in a
| rough box that occupied one corner of the
| room. Over this heap of mail peered the
| countenance of the attentive secretary, VINO
with the mystic aid of the cabalistic short
| hand, put down the words of the working
| member which were to form the substance
| of the answers.
| 'This is the most disheartenng work that
| man ever engaged in said the fagged-out
congressman as he leaned back for mo-
ment's rest. at would make no difference,
| or at least there would be some resompense,
| if this miserable work | am doing amou nted
| to anything. But it does not. People In the
| states have an exaggerated idea OF the infiu-
| ence of a congressman. They hear OIL some
| one who has been given n place and they
| think their own failure to get in Office simply
| means the Indifference of their member. /
| am receiving daily, scores of applications for
places These are in many instances accom-
| panied by letters from influential friends of
| the candidates. In each one l have
| TO acknowledge the receipt of the commune
| cation and then write an endorsement to ac-
| company it when file it at the department.
| OF course have in most cases to do Jnis per-
| sonally, to make my little speech before the
| particular official who handles the applica-
(, ton, so that may write my correspondent
| the facts to impress upon him my good Will
| and the effort I make to get hlm fixed.
"But what does all this labor signifys
| Nothing. 1 will tell you candldly, that of
| the hundreds of applications l have fled l
| have not had one appointment to repay me
! for my trouble. If this work did anybody
! any good l wouldn't complain, but it is sense
| less and disheartening."
| OF course now and then plum does drop
| into the hands of the working members, and
| many of them fall to those who have strong
| influence with the administration, but as a
rule the applications that are filed might as
| well be buried without hope of resurrection
even when the final trumpet blows.