Omaha daily bee., 1893-04-10
GiTE THE IMPEICHED THEIR DUES.

GlTE THE IMPEICHED THEIR DUES.
Broken Bow Beacon (pop.): 1t is bitter
pill, but the republican party of Nebraska
will have to take its medicine If the
dishonest officials are not impeached here
and now, the whole party will be impeached
by an outraged people at the polls next No
vember.
Wakefield Republican: The republican
party of this state has a job of house clean
ing on its hands in the state capitol at Lin
coin. When a political party has held Office
so long II is sure to gather in its train some
camp followers for spoils. The ship of state
needs to be pumped clean of bilge water.
Genoa Leader (repJ: There is no honest
man in Nebraska, who, in the face of
the evidence already produced does
not desire to see the impeachment proceed
ings pushed against the members of the
Board of Public Buildings and either punish
or cxonerate them on the face of the
evidence.
Friend Telegraph (rep): Calling MIR. Ed
ward RoSewatcr of THE OMAHA BEE names
does not and will not establish the innocence
of those he charges with malfeasance i'll
office and who, under the action of the legis-
lature relating to impeachment, must stand
trial. Mr. Rosewater is human ana doubt
less has his faults, but the truth is that nine
out of every ten newspapers in Nebraska
join with him in the position he has taken
and, like him, demand that no guilty official
shall be allowed to escape just punishment
for wrong doing The interests of the state
and all its people are over and above the in
terests of a few individuals or any political
| party. That old adage, Right wrongs no
man" is as true today as when first written
| Don't let's divert our minds from the real
| question at issue bycalling names, If they
| are innocent, i'll Justice to them, let it be
| shown. If guilty. the day of retribution can
| not come too quickly
Wahoo Wasp (rep.3: The request of the
| members of the Board of Public Lands and
| Buildings that their friends support the i'm
| peachment resolutions, coming at this late
| day, draws suspicion against the sincerity of
| the request and looks a little like feeble
effort to anticipate the inevitable The com
| mittec that has been investigating this mat
| ter has been accused of conducting "star
| chamber investigations If the members OF
the Board of Public Lands ana Buildings have
! failed to do. their dsty; if they have allowed
the state treasury to be robbed,
either by omission or commission they
| should have the full benefit of their
actions as public officers placed in charge of
| the conduct and management of our numer-
| Gus STATE institutions where several hundred
| thousand dollars are expended every year.
/ The republican party should insist on a
| searching and thorough investigation. The
| party should not wear its life out hunting
| for excuses for dishonesty or crookedness.
| 1t should insist that all dishonesty be cX-
posed and the guilty parties given their Just
| punishment Let the facts be made public,
| hide nothing from the people. Let the rule
for state officers be honesty, ability and in
| tegrity, and cut the heads off of those who
| can't stand the test
Norfolk Journal: To the honest, level
| headed citizen neither the frantic howing
| for impeachment nor the senseless outCry
| about persons who inStigated it, or the
methods adopted in bringing out facts which
go TO show its necessity will cut much fig
| ure. There seems to have been enough eS-
| tablshed in one and another way TO raise the
| question to whether the many things
pointing toward official Intidelity should not
| be Sltted down, guaged, weighed, meas
| ured to see what they amount to. There is
never time when public interests are not
best conserved by men of integrity. The
same thing is true of the interests of the
party to which they belong. No
party can shield and defend rascals in it
without in some measure sharing in the ras-
| cality. No party can afford it, In the course
of events leading up to the impeachment
| of four of the state officials there have been
those who seemed to desire nothing so much
| as to find reasons for deposing them what
| ever might be found in their favor-in fact,
that nothing should be considered III their
favor. On the other hand there were those
| determined that nothing should be found
| against them. Behind these are the honest,
law-abiding citizens, lovers of truth and JUS
tice who say, "let the investigation be fully
and fairly made If these men have been
unfaithful to their high trust let them be re-
tired and let others who can be trusted take
their place. If they have been true an in
QUESTION can do no harm 1T can only serve
to relieve them of the dark suspicious which
have been cast upon them" Accordingly
the accused officials did a sensible thing
when they invited and asked the members
of the legislature to vote for it. According
TO the laws of Nebraska the trial will be
before the supreme court
Blair Pilot trep): That was bold play
to the grand stand made by the four i'm
peached men at Lincoln in asking for inn
parchment. All it lacked of perfection was
the date. 1t should have been sent in on
Saturday, April /. The vigorous fight made
by them and their friends right up to the
moment when impeachment was assured is
in strange contrast with the statement that
they now want full, fair and impartial
investigation" nor will any sane man be-
lieve that they will relax their efforts one
iota to prevent the very thing they
!, ! say in their pretended change of heart
r they now want, "a full, fair ano
! impartial investigation is exactly what
they don't want IL is what they most
fear, as proven, not by their words but by
their actions and il is exactly what they
' and their friends will resist TO the bttel
V end. The late pretensc is an evident sol
l thrown out 10 befog and bewilder or to undo
1 the prosecution by seeming acquiescencC
A and il may succeed. "A pretense of fairness
d and honesty often leaves a man or cause a
: the mercy of the pretender. The shores o
a time are strewn with the wrecks of homes
purposes caused lby victories achieved
through treacheryLa pretense of fairness
and honesty, smiling countenance and
dagger up the sleeve for use at the OppOr
# tune moment. These are the weapons o
modern legal brigandage, and consutut
# the rocks on which the purposes 0
# honest men and the honest masse
n are split in twain and too often rendcre
- null and vOid. And then sympathy in thes
,s days runs riot with sense and justice, and a
n a rule knocks them out in every case wher
ii the accused has influence. But we hop
=, against hope that in this case an nvestiga
. tion will be had and justice be done Thes
men though high in the state councils an
honored officials should be treated cxactl
like commoners and upon the facts precisel
4 the same findings and judgments should b
n entered. There should DE nerve enough an
r integrity with it on the part OF the prosC
N cutting authorities to SEQ that mo guilt
s. man escapes" but TO tell the truth we hay
i slight faith that any tangible results wi
d accrue while the preponderance of interes
IS is so largely in favor of fixing things"