Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-03

tunuenuO. III It's |nDIaulOuS WaTidTt upoh
Martin White the World-Hera seeks
to cover up the conspiracy which has
been Matched among the gamblers and
crooks to control the police of Omaha
by vicious and malicious but covert as
saults upon Martin White, whom the
blacklegs, blackmailers and hold-ups
hate and fear.
But the discharge of mud bat
terics and smut machines should
not be allowed to distract or befog the
citizens of Omaha who desire good gov
ernment OF the police commissioners
who are pledged to honest police reform.
The capacity OF Martin White for the
position of chief of police can not be
called into question in the face of the
Communications from police officers of
high rank and court officers who nave
been associated with him for years in
the prosecution of dangerous CRIMINALS
of all kinds. Neither can Martin White
he belittled by sneers or ridicule com-
ing from police reporters carried on tue
city pay roll to relieve the World-Herald
from the expense of their salaries. Wheh
such hirelings declare that Chief Nh1tc
was the laughing stock of Omaha pollce
the wretched libelcrs only make them
selves ridiculous as well as contelnpt-
Bile.
As a prelude in its campaign against
White the conspirators' organ spread
broadcast the intimation that Martin
White is in league with Tom DepnlSoh,
the so.callcd policy king, and in some
mysterious manner connected with Son
ncnberg, the pawnbroker, who is rep.
resented as the receiver of stolen goods.
This outrageous SANDER is now ollowed
by ~insinuations that the candidacy OF
White is in the interest of open gamb-
ling, and that $1,000 was offered by one
Of Tom Dennison's silent partners Tor
ono vote TO make Martin hite chief
of nolice. one-half of which was to be
paid to the procurcr and the other half to
the police commissioner whose vote was
delivered. Will the World-Herald live
the dccency to answer these Questiohs'
First. Is Tom Dennison, the policy
king, the same man who persuaded
Charles Pierson, the proprietor OF the
dcfunct Denver gambling establish
| ment, to refuse the demand OF Vi. NJ
Hitchcock for Il loan of $4,000. as teStl-
fed in a case tried in the district court
in Omaha?
Second. Has Tom Dennison a silent
PARTNER with whom he shares the prohts
of n policy shop in return for the pro
.-..;n,, ,yl;ah hn IN inVnh FOR Np1rS Inupl'
Stewart. Haze and their subordinates!
Third. Who is the silent partner OF
Tom Dennison who offered $4,000 for Il
vote in the police board, who is the man
TO whom it was offered and whose vote
was he bargaining for?
Fourth. Was this alleged offer OF
$4,000 made to any member of the 20
lice commission? If so, when, by whom
and where?
Fifth. Does the World Herald dare
DENY that Chief Sigwart, Captain Haze,
Chief Detective Cox and other reDub-
lican police officers We're dragooned into
the active support of Howell by prom
ises of retention in the police serv-
ice and that in the late election the
brewers, liquor dealers II Keepers oil
tolerated gambling resorts were touched
with the police club for money and
votes in the interest of lowell? Does
it dare deny that Chief Sigwart detailed
detectives on the city pay roll to report
to the Howell campaign managers for
political work?
When these questions are answered
The Bee will for the seventh tim repeat
the following questions, which up to
date have been studiously ignored by
the political fence:
First. How did it come that the
World-Herald proclaimed Henry Bolln
to be an honest man the day after he
had surrendered himself to the police
and admitted himself to be an embez-
zler of public funds? Did this have any
connection with the fact that n memo
randum slip was at that very moment
in the city cash drawer representing
stolen money advanced by Bolln to the
proprietor of the World-Herald?
Second. Why has the World-Herald
sought to shield and aid Embezzler Bart
lev both before and since his conviction?
Is it because he deposited n large sum
of state money in Il defunct Omaha
bank with the understanding that the
bank would reciprocate by making "A
loan to the proprietor of that paper?
Third. What string has BARLEY to
the proprietor and editor of the World
Herald which enables him to summon
them at pleasure for conference to the
Douglas county Jail and make use of
reporters of that paper as solicitors OF
| signers to his bail bond?
We trust the Wor!d-Herald will kecI
to the question and stop its, cuttle1isl
tactics.