Omaha daily bee., 1893-09-18
RICHARDS AND MAN WELL.

man: Friend Edward-It has been some
time since | have felt called upon to com
municate with you, but the call has come,
and while it may not be proper for one Of the
crew TO address the pilot, / am gong TO
risk it.
The hard or democratic times we are ex-
pericncing have compelled many economies,
and 1t has seemed necessary to discontinue
my subscription to The Bee, so that it is
largely through the interest of mutual
friends that / have knowledge of The BEES
gross misrepreso ntatlons of and malicio us
attacks upon the republicans of Dodge
county for disregarding your orders in the
management and conduct of their affairs.
The offending consists in Hon. Joseph f..
Prick entertaining an ambition to be nom
mated and elected as one of the supreme
judges in place Of Judge Samuel Maxwell.
You seem to think it a crime for any one to
aspire to an ofice in this state without your
permission, or having The BEE brand upon
him. / DO not agree with you, and that is
one of the reasons why I am supporting Mr..
k'rick.
To correct some of The BEES misrepre-
sensations regarding the situation here, 1
would say that for some months Mr.. Prick
has been talked of as a candidate, and three
weeks ago some of the republicans of Dodge
county came to the conclusion that Judge
Maxwell could not be nominated to succeed
himself, and thereupon decided TO support
Mr.. Tricks candidacy, which was announced
in the Tribune. l am opposed to the kind of
politics that defeated Judge Reese at Hast
ings. l believe in n showing of hands at the
primaries and abiding the result. Treach-
cry and dishonesty in politics will never find
an endorserin Dodge county republicans, and
on this platform it WAS decided to make u
square, open fight III the county for a Frick
delegation to the state convention. l am
well aware that you cannot endorse such a
platform, for a year ago, after you were
beaten in Douglas county, you went to Kear-
ney with your democratic knife in one hand,
and boiling CLUB in the other, and secured
an endorsement that all honest men now are
ashamed of.
Ten days after the announcement of MIR.
Tricks candidacy in the Tribune, on Satur-
day, August 26, the county committee met
ana called the county convention for Sep
TENDER s, and recommended that the pri-
maries be held on the evening of the 18th,
which gave the friends of Judge Maxwell
three weeks notice Of Mr.. Tricks candidacy.
This you d%enominate a ''snap convention
The fight was on from the start, and with a
determination that everything should be
conducted fairly at the primaries, the friends
of Mr.. Fr1ck suggested to the friends of
judge Maxwell that a system of registration
and challenges be agreed upon in order that
there should be u fair expression of the re-
publicans of the county, which was agreed
to. There was not the slightest friction
Mt the primaries, except in tho Imagination
of your man Hunt, who reported that
Mayor Fried threatened to strike Mr.. Dor
sey. (Why did you not correct this, as Mr..
Hunt said it should-neO In the city of FIRE.
mont nearly 500 republicans participated in
the primaries, and the result of the voting
gave Mr.. Prick thirty-siX of the forty-seven
city delegates. In Platte precinct, Judge
MaXwelrs home. the vote stood 36 to 30 in
favor of Maxwell. The primaries all over
the county were proportionately well at
tended and the line sharply drawn, thus
giving the fullest expression ever had in the
county. The delegates so elected met in
county convention, and by q vote of 70 to 80
selected fifteen delegates to the state con-
vention and instructed them to use all hon
orable means to secure the nomination of
Hon. Joseph E.. Prick for supreme Judge.
You charge Mr.. Prick with being q rail
road man, intended of course in the sense of
n tool. Such a charge is absolutely false.
Mr.. Tricks sense of justice is as rigid as
any mans in this state, and he will always
be found, wherever he may be, standing for
right. Your charge that the railroads
packed the primaries is on n par with the
rest of the business. There were not fifteen
railroad men in the entire city who particle
pated IN the primaries, and the Frick
delegates had the smallest majority in the So
called railroad ward, which gives the lie to
TO the charge. The fact of the matter is,
that after the sharpest contest and fullest
expression ever recorded in tho county, a
majority Of the republicans were found OPP
posed to the nomination of Judge Maxwell.
| have the greatest respect for Judge Max
well, rs have all of our people, but he is hu-
man and makes mistakes commo to human
ity, and there is a widespread impression
that he has arrived at that age where he
follows his prejudices instead of his Judg-
been governed by the "raw equity" of cases,
which is not always right.
lie is too much of a populist to suit a
majority of the republicans of this county.
The presentation of his name before the
populist state convention, and his endorse.
ment by various populist county conventions,
shows Judge Maxwell's leaning strongly in
that direction. 1t is well known that he was
the confidential counselor and advisor of the
populist end of the legislature during its ses-
sion last winter. Then his friends come to
us with the club that il he was not nomi-
mated by some convention he would run indie
pendently on petition. If my own brother vas
in his position, as / understand it, | should
him as strongly asI do Judge Maxwell.
We have heard so much from yourself and
other such honest men rs George w. Il.
Dorsey, G. w. Hyatt, The BEE correspond
ent, and incidentally engaged in the infant
industry, and MIR. Atwood, alias Green,
about Judge Maxwell's honesty, that there is
fear you are posing him as a professionally
honest man.
Judge Maxwell has said in one of his opin-
ions that a contract legal in every way can
not be enforced. Such decisions must
naturally place the best interests of tho
state against him, unless we want to intro
duce Kansas and Colorado methods into our
commonwealth.
1t is said that Judge Maxwell is a poor
man and needs the salary-to support himself
and family. This would be no argument If
true, but the facts are that in addition TO
his fine property here he owns a good farm
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