The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-11-17
A Slight Attempt at Rosewaterism.
INDIANoLA, NEB., Nov. 10, 1895

Editor TRIBUNE, McCook, Nebraska.
Dear Sir:-Will you kindly allow me
space in your paper to answer the fol-
lowing ''screed" which appeared i'll the
McCook Time-Democrat of November
10th: at is now useless for ex-politician
John J. Lamborn to write to Brother
Meserve to ask for a conference with a
view to arranging the details for the
defeat of Barnes" Were it not for the
statement contained in the above item,
that / had written Mr.. Meserve a letter
"asking for a conference to arrange the
details for the defeat of MI. Barnes"
imputing to me a motive such as only
the editor of the Times Democrat could
ever be gully of, 1 would consider the
dirty fling beneath my notice. Certainly
so coming from a mugwump of six or
sever years standing, land never consid-
cred a very good mugwump either, as he
was always like the Irishman's flea, one
never knew where to find him), and as
to his conversion to r~epublicanism, he is
not dry behind the ears.
/ wish to brand his statement as false,
and the writer of it a base falsifer and
the truth is not in him. l never wrote a
line or letter to Mr.. Meserve, or any one
else, looking to the defeat of any candi-
date on the republican ticket.
Since the editor of the Times-Demo-
crat was elected secretary of the republic
can county central committee, he seems
to have assumed a ''Rosewater dictator
ship" over the party in this county, and
republicans no longer have the right of
exercising their own Judgment. We're
he possessed of a hundredth part of the
brains of the man he seeks to initiate in
his dictatorship, the party would GER
tainly be in a deplorable condition. But
republicans have no fears, as the editor
referred to was never known to nave one
single conviction of his own, or if he had
he is too much of a moral coward to
maintain it. 1t is only when his brother
bolts the caucus nominee, named in a
meeting in which he was a candidate,
and whose action he was in honor bound
to respect and abide by, and forces his
nomination on the convention, and some
of the republicans refuse to endorse his
actions, that the editor of the Times
Democrat proclaims himself a straight
out republican and undertakes to read
out of the party all such as do not vote
for brother Bert. Well, Mr.. Barnes, let
the reading proceed, but look well to
your own footing. Call to your mind
Stephen Bolles, J. H. Goodrich, L. D.
Richards, James Laird, J. c. Moore and J..
c. Allen in his first election. Did you vote
for these men? In addition to the above
1 firmly believe you were in the deal in
the last campaign to deliberately knife
George w. Roper in the interest of your
brother. If not, why is it that Banks got
4oI votes in McCook and Roper only $50,
Beck 374 and Moore only 324? Were
there any mugwumps, using your own
terms, in McCook? If not, why did the
vote run so uneven? As you are "dicta-
tor" and intend reading out of the party
all who did not vote for your brother
Bert, you should in all honesty explain
this difference in the vote of your town
satisfactorily, or you might have to COM
enc at home.
1 expect to be in the ranks of the G. o.
p, helping to fight its battles, without
fee or reward, or fixing up a deal with
independents" to get county pap, long
after the editor of the Times-Democrat
has got sulky because himself or brother
can no longer draw on the county treas
ury and bolted the party, which he will
do, should Bert fail of a denomination
two years hence-and if reports are true,
it will not be the first time he has done
the ''bolting act"
Now dictator" during your long res
idence in this county what have you ever
done to maintain republican supremacy?
Have you ever travelled the prairie at the
dead hour of midnight, or spent any
money to help the party along? l have
been pretty closely identified with almost
every campaign, save the last, for the
last thirteen years, and 1 never knew of
your turning your hand, save in the last
one, and then spent your time studying
up what mean things you could say about
better republicans than you ever thought
of being. Mugwumps! Shades of Moses!
That sounds sweet, coming from such a
source. Will wonders ever cease? Go
off and soak your head, then learn the
principles of true re~publicanism and try
to be a credit to the party, if you intend
to stay in it. You have made a low
down, dirty campaign, and it is safe to
say you did not make a single vote for
the ticket, but on the contrary rather
detracted from the clean, manly CAM
paign waged by THE TRIBUNE, even
though the editors father-in-law was a
candidate on the other ticket. 1t is very
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