Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-11

MR.. HIMlLL OF DEN YER.

General William A. Hamill, the
Colorado member of the National Re
publican committee, returned to Denver
a few days ago and had himself inter-
viewed concerning his treachery toward
Omaha. The Colorado swashbuckler
starts out by casting contemplate slurs
upon this city,. He says:
One Of the greatest efforts was that made
by Omaha. That city based It's claims on the
assertion that it was a mid-coutinental city,
and appeared to think that everybody west
of the Mississippi river should vote for il.
You may remember that at the last Colorado
republican convention, held at GlenwUod
Springs, 1t wassdesired that the Colorado
member of the national committee should
vote for Omaha, but so far as l was concerned
the fact was never impressed upon my mind
that Omaha had any of the requisite fitness
for a convention city, or a place in which to
hold largo political conventions.
If Mr.. Hamill had been content with
this explanation of his recreancy to a
trust which had been reposed in him by
Colorado republicans, we might permit
the matter to rest between himself and
his constituents. But Mr.. Hamlll is q
political demagogue and in that
capacity he had to invent an excuse that
would strike the popular chord with the
masses of the centennial state. With
this end in view he supplements his on
PLANTATION that would at once silence all
criticism among Coloradoan5. Says he:
When l reached Omaha on my way to
Washington, l became very thoroughly con-
WINGED that Colorado, at least, should not
vote for that place. In the issue of THE
OMAHA BEE OF Friday, November 20, which
l picked up on the way east there was a very
nasty article on Senator Stewards advocacy
Of the free coinage of silver, the paper taking
the ground that a silver dollar was an un-
sound medium of currency. This would
have determined my vote il nothing else
as it would have been used by eastern single
standard men as an argument that the west
was not a unit on the free coinage of silver.
Now this terrible, nasty assault upon
Senator Stewart consists of just seven
lines on the editorial page. The offen-
sive paragraph reads as follows:
Senator Stewart owns silver MINES enough
to excuse him as @ business man for insisting
upon free coinage, put he is a United States
senator and in tho capacity of statesman he
cannot be excused for insisting upon con-
gressional action which shall depase our cur
rency.
What is there nasty in this paragraph?
Is there anything in it that would justify
even an inference that THE BEE regards
u silver dollar as an unsound money
medium?
There are thousands of people in the
Rocky mountain states opposed to free
and unlimited silver coinage and there
are millions of them west of the Missis-
sippi. Hamill asserts that he voted
for Minneapolis and against Omaha from
the start because The BEE is not in
favor of free coinage, and yet this brazen
hypocrite knows that the leading papers
of Minneapolis and St. Paul have always
held and do now hold the same position
that THE BEE does on free and I'M
limited c~oinuge.uer
The true m~wardness of Hamill's
treachory is found in the concluding
portion of his interview:
ut is my opint6n,'n said General Hamill,
that there is no more suitable place in
which TO hold q national convention than IN
Denver, and a strong effort should be made
by Colorado to secdfe the national republi-
can convention fopgyears hence"
This is the miDhin the Hamill cocoa
nut. Denver Wants the national conven-
ton four years Hence, If it had gone
to Omaha in 1892 it might have been
impolitic to send it 30 Denver in 1896,
1t was Hamifl's design from the outset
to defeat Omaha If possible. He not
only voted against Omaha but talked
and lobbied against her and belittled
her claim by misrepresentation. But
Omaha will be on hand four years hence
and will not forget Hamill. Denver
has had several important con ven
tions, including the national Grand
and the Army of the Republic reunion
~triennial concluve OF knights Templar
by the help of Nebraska and
Omaha. 1t would have been grace
full and neighborly for her to show u
friendly disposition toward this city even
If she did not intend to stand by her
through thick and thin. She has