Omaha daily bee., 1898-01-17
COLD COMFORT ron DErAuLrEns.

Alliance Times: The supreme court of the
state OF Nebraska has affirmed the sentence
OF the Omaha courts appealed by EmbeZ-
zler Barley and the latter will not get his
just deserts behind the bars.
Stanton Picket: 10 Joe Bartley wants to
do the state he has wronged a final good
turn he will forthwith divluge the names Of
the men who so generously assisted him in
making away with the public money. He
ought 20 see that the time has arrived when
silence has ceased to be a virtue.
Schuyler Quill: Our supreme court aflirms
the judgment in the district court wherein
ex-State Treasurer BARLEY goes to the peni-
tentiary for twenty years for embezzling
S201 .SS4 OF state cash. This is proper and
our republican supreme court has one credit
mark in it's favor, even II no more. But
this was CAGE whore nothing else could
have been done.
Clay Center Sun: The supreme court has
affirmed the judgment OF the lower court in
tho BARLEY case and the twenty-year SEN
tence stands This knocks the props from
under Blrtley's defense as we'll as from un-
der the hopes OF the popocrats who had prom
ised the people that republican courts would
turn him loose. II is also a sudden Jar to
the nerves OF the papers which have kept
tho deusion up to their ast issue.
bloomington Echo: Joseph s. Partley
within thirty days will be confined behind the
prison walls at the state peuitentiary. II
this man should take it into his head to di-
vulge the t,ames of s5me Of the fellows that
have secured some of the stolen money 1t
might make quite a nlttling CT dry bones.
There is no doubt but what tiey, too, would
follow Partley to the pen, just as Ben Mills
followed ex-Trelsurer Whitney of Harlan
county to the same place.
Falls City Journal: The stories told by
anti-repubiCan forces before election that
the republicans did not want to convict Bart
fn1c thn
election BARLEY was convicted OF embez-
Zling the state funds and sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. This wac
appealed to the supreme court and was af-
hrmed this week. A republican court con-
victed Barley and a republican supreme
court affirmed the decision. The republicans
are ready to convict defaulters and punish
them no matter what their politics.
Blair Pilct: During the late campaign II
was common talk among popuist leaders
that as soon as the election was over the
state supreme court would allow Joe Bart
ley his freedom on some technioality. This,
OF course, was campaign thunder used only
to draw votes from Justice Post for the pur-
pose of electing Suliya,. The result OF the
supreme courts findings places a very diff
ferent light on the matter. The court over
ruled every point of the defense and affirmed
the decision of the lower court Judge Baker
gave twenty-year sentcoce and BARLEY will
soon start out serving time He will have
ample time for reflection.
Ponca Journal: e. S. Whitney, defaultng
ex-treasurer Of Harlan county, Nebraska,
wds lodged i, the penitentiary the first of the
week for a term of two and one-tllf years.
faVlng been convicted of embezzlement. b.
L. Mills, eX-hanker of Republican City, who
had borrowed public money from Whitney
and aided his down'all. was also found guilty
of embezzlement and given a five years
term OF penal servitude. The precedent thus
nl nrf11 IN,,lN ~.
nmong these who helped wreck ex-Auditor
Moore by securing leans from him sr,1 will
perhaps place damper on the too frequent
practice of borrowing money fram public Of
ficials According to that action the bor-
rover shares in the guilt and penalty of the
deiaulting officer, and in this case the fate
of the borrower is double that of the unfor-
tupAte treasurer.