Omaha daily bee., 1891-04-20
IMPOSTORS AND PERJURERS.

The BEE has seen fit to attack the legality
of the South Omaha saloon applications, as
published in the World Herald and served no.
tice of possible contest THE BEE is trying
the same unsuccessful game in South Omaha
that 1t tried in Omaha, where it failed. The
saloon keepers and druggists, who have
printed their notices In the World Herald,
need give themselves no uneasiness, as the
World-Herald will fully demonstrate when the
proper time comes that it is the legal paper
in which to print said applications. To say
that tho South Omaha druggists and liquor
dealers feel very indignanG at The BEE for its
bulldozing tactics would be putting 1t in very
mild language.
The general opinion among them is the same
as it was in Omaha few months ago, tnat
The BEE is matchmaking druggists and liquor
dealers. World Herald
THE BEE only repeats what it has
been compelled to say heretofore with
regard to the methods of Mr.. Hitch
cock and his sheet When you
are dealing with common swim
dlers and impostors you cannot
expect common decency or honorable
dealing.
There was never a more brazen exhi-
bition of downright imposture than this
man Hitchcock has pursued in trying to
foist his paper upon the community as
the leading circulating medium in this
county The law directs that every ap-
plication for license shall be published
in the paper having the largest circula-
tion in the county. The object of the
law is to give the widest p ublicity to the
application. Now Mr.. Hitchcock,
claim the largest bona fide circulation in
Douglas county for his paper than
has The publisher of the South
Omaho Stocknsan. But he deter
mined to play a bluff game anu sent
emissaries to the Omaha liquor dealers
to solicit their advertising and when
they we're notified that the World Herald
could not fulfill the requirement of the
law he sent out circular let
ter to assure them that he would
demonstrate before the police COM
| mission that the World Herald
had the largest circulation. But with
all the free distribution and piling up OF
waste paper in his press room, and with
the raniest of perjury, he failed to meet
| the showing of THE BEE, and the police
commission issued its order in January
| that no advertisement in the World
! Herald would thereafter be recognized
as legal.
And yet this impostor and monumental
fraud has the audacity now to assert that
| THE BEE was beaten before the
| police commission. And adding in
suit to injury, this self-convicted
impostor, who clubs merchants who
refuse to patronize him and bulldozes
members OF the board of education into
buying lots he cannot dispose of to any
body else, has the gall TO stigmatize THE
BEE as blaclImailer because it sees fit
to insist upon its rights.
So far as the South Omaha license pub
lications are concerned they are merely
a bagatelle, but the question involved is
whether the law is to be made dead
letter as regards publicity and
whether the rightful claim OF
THE BEE as the paper having the
largest circulation is TO be overridden
by a concern that has built up its pre-
tended circulation on wind and perjured
affidavits.
In the Omaha contest the liquor deal
ers who were inveigled into patronlzinl
the World Herald were condoned by the
police commission on the ground that
they did not know any better, an THf