Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-01
HOWE ON THE ELECTION.

myself with rage. Lordi what fools these
mortals be!
People, you have howled for years for
good government. yet you have voted for
bad. You have not voted as you shot: you
shot on your mouths for good government.
but you voted against tito down Rose
water!
who is Rosewater that you have downed,
and whom many OF the headers" you have
followed would ruin? Why. he is the man
who has done more for Omaha and Nebraska
than any other man In either; the most in
1uentiai man IN Nebraskai He built The
Bee-the greatest paper west Of Chicago; he
built The Bee building, the best building In
Omaha. although millionaires who are for
downing Rosewater'' and running him have
done practically nothing. Ruin the man who
has done the most for Omaha Of any one
that ever lived in IL! Lord, what ingrates
you mortals be!
Rosewater. the past twenty years, has
pounded into the ground many enemies of
good government who we're inlmical TO YOU
and me; these blows he delivered for you
snd me. And yet you. citizens, have Joined
these rascals and lifted them up-to down
Rosewater!
Rosewater fought Mosher and Dorgan;
as a result the state capital ring sought to
compass his ruin-and you helped them.
When he struck the state capital ring, that
ring put through the legislature the iniqui-
tous police commission bill, and the supreme
court strained a point to sustain It; thus
putting the fire and police departments into
politics. when the very object Of the law
was to take them out of politics: the COM
mission idea was only defensible upon this
great ground, and the miscarriage in this
direction has made IL an engine OF evil in
stead of good.
Did not Rosewater defeat Tom Majors?
For this righteous deed hundreds OF you
whose patriotism is so rotten that 1t stinks,
Joined the rascals he has pounded into the
earth to do the people good-to down Rose?
water!
Because Rosewater breaks away from
party lines rather than support yellow dogs
and public plunderers and those who betray
the people, is the best Of reasons why you
should applaud him and not STAY him!
Many say Rosewater is bad. l know the
meanest things ever said of me in public
print were published in The Bee; that the
best things ever said of me were published
in the World-Herald. Rosewater is no saint;
he has a great business house to keep up;
what man who has is there who does not
adopt such business policies as will best
advance the interests of his house? What
Rosewater has done wrong. l do not de-
fand. The loudest-mouthed blatherskites who
howl against him are the ones least justified
in heaving rocks.
What rule should you, as citizens, follow?
The rule adopt for my own government is
the best I have been able to evolve, namely:
In public affairs do that which is right
regardless Of friend or enemy; II Rosewater
is on the right side to the best of your
Judgment, keep in his company; If not, do
not. Don't do wrong because Rosewater is
doing rights
In the late election the people lost their
heads. They lost sight of the issue, which
was good government for a term of years;
they voted for bad government when good
government was a contestant in the field;
and now 1t will be becoming in you, when
you hear Of rascality in the public service,
that you hold your peace; dc not peep!
Down Rosewater! Not much! He will yet
make Thanksgiving on the fowl that shall,
scratch the graves of those political bilks
whom he has buried once, whom you have
resurrected to destroy you, and whom he will
bury again to save you.
l have always had the greatest confidence
in the great middle class citizenship of this
city and judicial district; but what you did
November 8 has shaken it to the center! You
elected a judicial ticket ranging from indif-
ferent to bad. when you were offered one rang
ing from Indifferent to excellent; you elected
a city ticket that, in the main, means the
continuance of the iniquitous government of
the past with few of its excellencies, when
you were offered what was very much better!
Your greatest offense was, you lost your
heads. You Joined all that aggregation of
men, good, bad and Indifferent, whose first
object was to down Rosewater, including all
those camp-followers, political gutter-snipes,
religious, social and political dead beats,
buns and blatherskites that he had struck
down to defend you and me from dishonesty
in the public service.
You have elected a clerk of the district
court who nominated himself. The prize was
an office that a thousand competent men in
this city would be glad to fill at s., 500 per
year, but which, by a wicked system of fees,
has swollen to the absurdest proportions.
Mr.. Starr and many others say the office
should be made a salaried one instead OF one,
which, in these days, lays %grievous burdens
upon the mortgage debtor who is forced to
see his home sold for a song to pay debts
expanded with large interest, couponed and
compounded past endurance! You will not
see this righteous result, for you have elected
a man who Is backed by the federal power.
Do you know what that means? 1t means
the aggregation of all this corporations and
large capitalistic interests Of the state; these
interests elected this man against whom, per-
sonally, I have nothing to say. These in
terests will run your legislature. You joined
these interests as you Joined the deadbeats
aforesaid, because you wanted to down Rose
water; when you said you wanted good gov
eminent you talked through your hats, or
you were swerved by unworthy motives, or
you did not know enough to see what was
good and what was bad. You great middle
class citizens Joined monopolies and dead
beats and the enemies of good government.
Citizens! Chumps! w. j. Bryan's paper
supported this man and the whole gold bug
republican ticket. Bryan helped to STAY his
friends! Bryan has the blood of his friends
on his hands!
/ did not join the citizens movement be-
cause | did not like it altogether, and voted
only a part of its ticket; that which was
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