Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-05

fan insist upon having representation in the
governments for whose maintenlnce we are
heavily taxed. tApplause)
WHO RUNS THE COUNCIL.
"why, only the other day a councilman
from the First ward voted fer a measure.
and when his attention was called to II be
said that he did not know he had voted that
way. He voted because he had been told.
And who told him how to voter Pete
Schwenk OF the Eighth ward Oaughterl'
Israel Frank of the Second ward ana george
Stryker. who lives everywhere and nowhere.
daughter and cheers). The people dd not
tell your councilman how to vote. lie got
his instructions from an oath-bound political
organization that exists not for pr.ncple' out
for punder. ....,. :.
this hall of Judge of the district court leav-
ing his bench, adjourning his court and com
ing here to make speech. He did not come
to talk great principles but, like an old
washerwoman, came here to wash his dirty
political linen and insult the intelligence OF
the voters Of the First and Second wards.
CCheersD He uttered from this platform
words that no decent paper would publish
and used language that the lowest inmate OF
a bawdy house would blush to repeat |
had known this noble judge to do some very
singular things, but l was hardly prepared
to see him so degrade his position. saw
him go to sleep in the chair OF President
Harrison In the white house at Washington
and remain asleep while the president stood
I'D and talked with the other members OF the
Omaha delegation who had called 10 pay
their respects to the nations chief execu-
tive When he finally awOke he strutted
from the room and declared that it was an
outrage that the president had treated him
in that way. Laughter). Stiil, II was sur
prising to find him sinking his ofhca posi-
tion as he did when he addressed you IN TINS
hall He has been thinking of his insult to
you since and has tried to apologize in pure
Bohemian Q.aughter). He has been taking
lessons in Bohemian, just as Charley Unit
has been taking lessons in pure Polish over
in the Seventh ward CLaughterD
WHAT HAS SCOTT DONE?
"But, laying joking aside, the question
is has not he so demeaned himself that he
merits defeat at your hands In the coming
contest? You know he would have been I'M
peached by the last legislature had he not
been identified and belonged to the dervis9
crowd which now controls your city ana
county governments. And 1t Is strange, 100
and it may be a surprise to this noble 1udge
to know that his dervish friends MADE
proposition to secure his impeachment in the
legislature on condition that $4,000 be con-
tributed to their Doodle fund. (Applause)
Mr. Rosewater then recited several IN
stances of the perverson Of justice as ad-
ministered by Scott on the criminal behch'
He cited the Jardine case, in which two men
we're convicted Of burglary and grand larceny.
One was released by Scott and the other
was given five years in the penteDtlary' lie
told ct three cases in which convicted forgers
had been released by Scott because they told
pitful stories of how they had lost their
money in a gambling house. He told how
one man had been given fifteen years in the
penitentiary, and his partner. VINO had
planned the crime had been released In
another case a man had been gwen seven
years for stealing a few chickens, and an
other prisoner had been sent up for hve
years for stealing a coat from man who
owed him money and refused to pay All
of this time Scott talking against the
gamblers and when one pleaded guilty be-
fore him he used the feather duster and fined
him S4OO without any imprisonment.
After referring to the depression IN busl-
ness affairs and the universal reductions in
expenses in all businesses Of private ma
ture Mr.. Rosewater continued: But how is
it in the administration of city affairs? In
1887, when the city was prosperous and bust
ness was booming, the salary list OF the city
was $146,000. Today, with no more business
and without one-half of the amount Of public
improvement, we paying $3l1 900 in sal
aries. Where does the money go? 1t is
squandered on set Of vagabonds who could
not and would not earn living at anything
else than boodlng politics. The Board ol
Education was elected to carry out the will
OF the people. Instead of doing that 1t re-
ceives its orders as to who shall be dis
charged and who shall be ostracised from
council 1875. (Applnuse)
WHERE THE A. p. A. WAS FOOLED
men who joined that order with the hope of
lettering themselves and the government.
They thought at the time that the Irish were
getting all of the fat jobs, and they thought
they could get the Irish out and get the
Jobs themselves They did not foresee that
under the new rule of the A. p A. men
would be brought from Canada and installed
deputy jailers before they had been In
this country long enough to take out their
first papers. (Applause) They did not fore
see that loafers would pass upon the quail
6catons of the superintendent of the city
schools. as has been done in this city quite
recently What we want in this city now is
better government, and l don't care what
party he belongs to or what his religion is II
he's honest "a voice, God Bless the Flag. y
Yes God bless the flag, but don't bless a
lot of scalawags. (Cheers, loud and long,
And | want to say now about two Of the
men who doing most of this talk about
the flag. The vilest language ever heard wa;
used against Abraham Lincoln by that mis-
cradle old yelper, Isaac S. Hascall. Cheers
And that other patriot earned his title be-
cause he enrolled his name over at Ana
mosa soldier and then refused to &C
any further because the fighting was to be
done away from home, so he stayed at home
and fought for the flag with his mouth, an3
that's the kind of a patriot Colonel C. II
Scott Is. tCheers.) l take stock in thC
men who are always parading the flag TIL,
men who did the hardest fighting say the
least about 1t.
This dervish contingent Is now trying Il
change the system of cleaning the street.
by day laborers and go back to the old con
tract system. In July and August 1894
the city paid Jim Stephenson, street sweep
ing contractor, $500. In the same months
this year, under day labor, the same worl
was better done for 50 600, a saving of s., 200
Two years ago the laborers received 81
cents to sl.25 a day for sixteen hours work
Today they receive $3.50 per day for e.sh
to ten hours work. Now, l want to know
il We are going back to the system OF jim
stephenson and Jim Winspear just because
somebody wants to divvy with somebody
else. What we want is a government tina
VIII take men who want to work and Civ
them work without regard to their poltic
or religious creed. This question must b.
met.
by a combination this order has built NJ
a clique that controls the courts, the Boar,
OF Education and the city and county OF
fees. To overcome this evil all good citi
zens should come ont and join this move
ment, and work ont the contemplated re
forms. and when II is over We viii all re
joice that Omaha has good government
government for the people and by the peo
ple."
LOCAL LEAGUES FORMED.
At the close Of Mr.. Rosewater's address
an opportunity was given to the voters O
the First and Second wards to sign the decla
ration adopted by the Citizens league. Il