Omaha daily bee., 1893-09-18
A CAUSTIC REJOINDER.

lNlCIfhitDos olE-lb ltlS Dttn lily CuSbOlll
ever since THE BEE was founded to give
publicity to all complaints that concern
the public and to extend a courteous
hearing to everybody -including my
most bitter personal and political enc
mics whenever they feel aggrieved
about anything l may have said, done, or
published. l certainly should have
made no exception from this rule in
your case, although l am aware that for
a number of years you have been afflicted
with an incurable malady known as
Neutrality-suspicious." l am charitable
enough to ascribe your insulting and
scurrilous outburst to the excess of gall,
deficiency Of s~elf-control and insane de-
sire for notoriety, which nearly always
accompany the acute stages of the dis
ease, and often aver manifest them
selves in galvanized political corpses.
1t may not be out of place at the outset
to state hat your letter. dated the 18th
and mailed on the 18th, did not intimate
whether you desired a reply through
THE BEE or by mail. In order to ascer-
tain your wishes in this respect L wired
you Saturday and you responded that I
should exercise my own pleasure.
With honesty and d~ecency in politics"
as your motto, you have rushed into
printin the demp-populist World Herald
in order to force a public controversy
which will enable you once more to ex-
hibit the scabs that cover your political
sores. Now, while neither of us is an
issue in the impending campaign and
the republican party cannot profit by
our threshing over old straw, 1 feel
grateful that you have afforded me an
opportunity to contradict and refute
several outrageous libels and slanderous
reports to which you and other unprinci-
pied politicians of the railroad brand
have given currency.
So much for the prelude; now for the
facts and falsehoods. You begin your
jeremiad by assuring me that you do not
read The BEE and only found out that
it had made numerous attacks upon the
republicans of Dodge county through q
mutual friend. This is not material.
but only exhibits your transparent
hypocrisy. venture to assert hat you
have read The BEE as regularly as any
body in Fremont, but you manage to get
the paper secondhand. You feel
very r~esentful because THE BEE
does not take stock in the can
didacy of the Honorable Joseph Prick.
Since when has Mr.. Frick peel an Hon
orable?" He has never peer a member
of any legislative body, never even been
a justice of the peace! Mr.. Prick may be,
and possibly is, honorable and honest in
his Observation-Disclosures has called
mis- business integrity in question. But
Mr.. Tricks political conduct in playing
dummy for the railroads when no other
lawyer in Dodge county would stoop to
such a thing is decidedly re~prehensible.
Every mar has a right to satisfy his
ambition, but Mr.. Prick is too intelli-
gent not to know that he has simply
been chosen to play a despicable part.
He knows enough to know that his back
ing comes from the enemies of good
government who are conspiring to de-
pose Judge Maxwell because he has
dared to expound the constitution and
the laws honestly and without trucking
to the dictates or demands of corporate
monopoly, and because he has voted to
sustain the charges of m~alfeasance
brought against the impeached state Of
ficials.
You say republicans of Dodge came to
the conclusion three weeks ago that
Judge Maxwell could not be nominated.
What a brazen falsehood! How did
the republicans of Dodge county know
three weeks ago what nobody in the
state knows with any degree of GER
tainty up to this time? Not a
single convention had beer held three
weeks ago and no republican paper Of
any prominence had arrayed itself
against Maxwell at that time. When
you speak for the republicans of Dodge
county you doubtless speak for yourself
and the coteriei who get their inspi-
ration from Elkhorn railroad head
quarters. You will, of course, deny
this and pronounce it a lie. You
deny your political masters just as your
man Friday had the temerity to deny his
well known relations to that railroad
and challenged contradiction, when
time and again Ihaye seen carloads of
lohilihph' Wv "isii
the imprint of the Fremont Tribune
delivered in front of the Merchants
National bank building in this city, in
which the Elkhorn road has It's head
quarters. Why does that road have its
job work done in Fremont when it can
get it done cheaper, if not better, at Chi
cago and Omaha? You will, perhaps,
~insinuate that this is whore the shoe
pinches. The fact is, The BEE has no
job Office. 1t does not even print
its own letter heads and envelopes,
and has not done so for more than twelve
years. l do not care who does the rail
road Job printing except SO far as this
patronage is used to bride publishers
and control political parties through a
subsidized press.
Your assertion that | went to Kearney
last year with my democratic knife in