Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-02

THE FIELD AGAINST MAX YELL.
When the republican state convention
assemblies next Thursday all the dele
gates not instructed for Maxwell will be
importuned TO range themselves in line
with the pronounced opponents of Max
well under pretext hat failure to in-
struct for Maxwell must be interpreted
as n demand for his retirement. To
organize the field against Maxwell
and wear out his supporters until
enough delegates have been secured by
railroad Doodle or state house patronage
ha been from the outset the plan of the
conspirators who have masscd the cor
porate forces and their confederates at
tho state house in a desperate effort to
deposc Judge Maxwell. Tho strenuous
efforts Of the railroad managers mt
state house ring TO bring candidates into
the ticld from every populous county
has not proved Il bowling success. 1t is
to the credit of the Nebraska bar and
bench that only half a dozen lawyers
have yielded to the temptation of secur-
ing notoriety and rendering themselves
serviceable TO their corporate employers
by entering the lists against Judge Max
well.
The field as it is now composed CON
sists Of the following candidates: Mr..
j.. T.. Cobbey of Gage, who is known
chiefly ~ compiler of u very wretched
revision of the statutes of Nebraska and
a barrister with very moderate practice
in Beatrice. In his own county he is
generally discredited and could not be
elected county judge. The idea of his
becoming supreme judge doubtless has
Its origin in the same quarters that
Matched out the candidacy of straw men
and corporation dummies in Dodge and
Douglas counties.
Next in order comes Joseph Frick, a
lawyer and manufacturer from Fremont,
sired by the Elkhorn Valley railroad
and groomed by Richards and his Man
Friday OF the Fremont & Elkhorn
Tribune. Mr.. Frick is a lawyer of fair
ability. but no principle if we maj Judge
him by the methods pursued to procure
his elevation to the supreme bench.
Then m Judge NJ. l.. Harvard of
Nebraska City, the associate of John L.
Webster in the defense of the impeached
state officials and a railroad republican
from away back. Judge Hayward is a
good lawyer. fully qualified for the place
to which the impeached, acquitted and
r~ep'imanded officials are anxious to eie-
vate him. He is also admirably suited
to I'LL a long felt want which the rail
road and other corporations have had to
own the supreme court. In all the polit-
ical contests that have ever occurred in
this state he has been their steadfast
supporter and champion and he has
fairly earned his spurs as their preferred
candidate.
Close to Mr.. Hayward in the affection
OF railroad republicans comes Hon. O.
A. Abbott of Grand Island. He is
also an able lawyer. The railroads do
not hire any other kind unless they
have some nasty job that requires a
shyster or q game of hide and seek that
wants a dummy. Mr.. Abbott was for years
the attorney of the Burlington railroad
at Grand Island, although at this time it
is claimed they have laid him off for
reasons best known to General Autocrat
Holdrege. Mr.. Abbott was for one term
lieutenant governor and set the prece-
dentfor Ed Carnes, Agee and Tom Majors
in converting the senate INTO a corpora
ton stronghold, from which the people
car be detied.
Last and also most ~inoffensive of this
galaxy comes Mr.. Clinton Powell of
Omaha, who is charitably presumed to
be afflicted with a temporary hallucina-
ton thai he is cut out for a supreme
judge, when in fact he has been trained
as a schoolmaster with a smattering of
law thrown in. Mr.. Powell is sired by
John L.. Webster and groomed by Char.
ley Greene. He is as innocent of guile
as a school girl, else he would have dis
covered by this time that he has been
roped in by a brace of political monte
sharps, who are taking him to Lincoln
on q snipe hunt, where he will hold the
sack while they bag the game. In real
ity it is too bid that a young man, who
has up to this time borne the best char
acter, should allow his insane ambition
for notoriety to lead him to become a
party to a despicablc and most disreput-
able intrigue, which "a only terminate
in his humiliation and d~iscredit.
To sum up, the field against Maxwell
is composed of railroad lawyers and
railroad dupes. The forces that they
muster are for the most part either mer-
cenaries or railroad camp followers with
a sprinkling of poor farmers and work
ipp man vino orn aplista6 in N bol NJ.
because they are under obligation to
corporation men. And with such a mot
ley crowd it is proposed to defeat the
choice of the republican party and
overthrow popular self-government.
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