The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-01

or the one who u'teys IL. Il it is
told not maliciou,iy, but Tor the pur.
pose Of show. , v.'
TO kn'',
Meserve ch,,rd au excess 81 surety
a. required Il BARLEY uy Governor
Crounse, barely enough to tti tue re.
a%uireulent, ant be requirement in the
bond was a m,,iou uuil IT. lr>> than II
ought to have been under the Jaw.
Nearly half of the o., ZOO, 600 which
Meserve p%re'ends is security is lap
over security already mulct in BARLEY
default and already squeezed into
nothing. Nearly a million is a third
lien on nothing. Two-thirds of the
Meserve bond is worthless, and the
state to day has only $500, 900 or $780,.
900 as passable security where it should
have 81, 1000, 900. Several Of Meserve's
larger sureties have left the state never
to return, leaving behind them not Il
doller Of asscts.
Mrs. John X. Clark has gone To- Flu.
rope permanently. Cook has removed
permanently to the Pacific coast. An.
other left Lincoln without "A dollar to
his name, and is in an eastern city.
Paxton has disposed Of all hi, prop.
erty. II these sureties made pretense
of solvency when they signed, they
have now thrown off all disguise, aud
the bond, the treasurer who gave it,
aud the governor who approved ii, are
all in default as to these, If all else is
secure. | could mention other names
and other conditions 10 detail that
would make this bond smell TO- heaven,
and would startle the innocent Swedes
OF Saunders aud Polk counties who
have been inveigled into more respon.
sibility than they ever intended 10 as.
sumo, but let others who are interested
take up the investigation where leave
of, and they'll find plenty Of aust for
the swift impeachment of the governor
and treasurer of this state.
But says the ~populisi politician
and professional reformer, "Meserye
is honest and needs no bonds. Very
well. | attack no mans private char
acter, All professional! reformers are
honest. Each one has a brand OF su.
perior honesty peculiar 10 himself, and
each ohe has connected to his honesty
a brass band attachment whose horns
toot necessarily in the public ear year
in and year out.
But there is a story, and 1t is
legitimate to print it, because IL
is gossiped publicly by those
who are in Il position 10 know,
because il shows the starting point of
Meserve's public career, and because
his act in putting up q spurious bond
aud continuing it, right in The midst
of II blazing tire of reform, precludes
him from all claim TO common ordi.
nary honesty, to any kind of honesty
OK ,ept professional brass band reform
honesty, and precludes him from the
r%eactionary benefits of self appropri.
ated m%artyrdom, while his history and
his character are being analysed. The
story gossiped here is that he owed
S1S, 900 moro than he could pay to a
bank in McCook and il was because Of
this $l8, 900 that intereste. parties
There procured by manipulation his
county treasurership of Red Willow
county, while the innocent populist
farmers thought that they were his dis,
coverers. They first procured his nom.
~ination by the populists, but the pro.
curing hurt him in the race and he was
defeated. In a few months his success.
full opponent died, and then they pro.
cured his appointment by the county
commissioners. Once in he was able
to ecure Il second term by election for,
success cures defects, and he was able
in his second term To assume high and
patriotic pretentions rs a reason fol-
entering politics. There's other talk,
but let Meserve first explain rs far Il,
we've got, and then well take another
hitch, He bowed his head under tn,
yoke which some McCook bosses put
- upon him aud they have cracked the
boss whip, the bank whip, the raiiroaC
whip, and the whip of the spuriou.
bond sureties over him every hour sine,
he has been in the state house. lii
entrance mo politics at McCook WA
o. not II reform impulse, but the very OPP
poSite. 1t was "A conspiracy Oetweei
him and his creditors to shoulder hi
, private debt onto Red Willow count,
= just rs his putting up of the spuriou
: state bond was a conspiracy with Bar,
Lefty and his sucked out sureties wher,
a by the state is again in jeopardy wit
only a tail end of small sureties, innl
cent Swedes, to stand for the 81, 200, 90
which should be Sc cured under the Law
II to those who have believed i
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