Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-25

OCtoper ~ lSB-To county CLERKS state !
certificate Of nomination for Judge of the
supreme court and regents of the state uni |
verslty You will kindly notice that, the
certificate of nomination has name and ad5
dress. This is to conform to sections i29
and l35 Of chapter XVI, Statutes Of 1889. In In
follow schedule "A, = which does not give
address or business, Please acknowledge
receipt. Very respectfully,
W. f. PORTER, Secretary of state.
On the certificate Is a simple statement
to the effect that the persons named have
been placed in nomination to be voted for
by the electors of the state of Nebraska The
secretary of states form CT ballot is dis
played prominently and in such way as to
lead people to believe that it was put there
as guidance to the county clerks in ar
ranging the form for the printed ballots.
Abbott and His Letter.
The publication two weeks ago of the
letter written by George Abbott, a prom
inent fusionist in Falls City, in which the
writer spoke Of the rotten fusion record
OF the state house gang" was not hailed
with very much enthusiasm by the populists
over the state who have been upholding and
supporting the state administration, but the
report that Mr.. Abbott had denied the au-
thorship Of any such letter was received
with delight. In the reported denial Mr..
Abbott Is said to have approved Of the record
OF the sham reformers in all respects but
on the pass question. During the last winter
Mr.. Abbott wrote letters similar to the one
published some time ago and 1t is difficult
to understand why he has so suddenly
changed his sentiments concerning the
record of the state house crowd. In connec-
! tion with Mr.. Abbott's denial and his ap
proval of the state house reformers the fol-
lowing letter may prove interesting
FALLS CITY Neb,. March L. lS99.,My
! Dear Mr.. Tibbles: For forty years l have
bten voter and have never once voted
/ the republican ticket. l have always been
| democratic party until 1890, when / went
into the popuEst moyiment ! however, ,h
! ether representatives of the reform ele-
! mdnts. In a word | was a greenoacker
not G'' enough of this reform feeling manifest
in the democratic party l would jump the
fence and vote for some reformer, at the
same time, battling to bring the democratic
party to the right IDEAS. In other words !;
Ike Bryan, hoped to reform the world
through the demosratic party until 1890
give you this much of my own history that
you may see that l have right to be
house officials have gone back into the re-
publican party l shall he h,re, If l live
battling for the same reform. ,
Now, let us have little plain, friendly
talk. You werd wrong in your estimate
of Mr.. Lichty. You think he is hypocrlte,
fired and then only in spite. etc. You blame
him for making the the fight through the
republican newspapers after refusing to
make it through our own papers; Now |
know that Iichty commenced IN three
months after he got IN to remonstrate WIN WIN
our officials for not practicing what they
preached. He cameI down here about three
months after the boys We're inaugurate,d
saa onq did Id not 0d us a @ ~ap
, ideas of reform, that Cornell was putting
thu money that came into his hands out N
the banks and among friends for for political
, effect just as the republicans had always
done, We told him to talk to John: He
, terfered with. That when John and tht
others commenced their free pass junketine
career again he protested and Informed his
friends here and on, a visit here he talk1t
with us and wanted to resign. We woult
not hear OF ms resgn@ng @ @ oqb o4bers 9eu st M rairh
Then The VIII When Pool took ss25 that he had NJ
g earthly right to it was LiGhty vn1 wn9 In, IN
own attorney general and when Whitaker
and Price reached out a little again ne pro
tested. In fact we. soon became convinced
: that he was the only one in the state hous,
who really was trying to practice In offc,
what he had preached out OF on once. Al =
. resign. We found out that all of these stat
1 officers who were following these republican
u Mdemanding de his discharge and so we told hin
not to resign. but stay and gather proc
and if the Internal scoundrels, who SEEM e.
y bent on disgracing the populist party D.
v their hunger for railroad passes shoul
succeed in forcing out of the state nous
: the only real reformer in it them we woul
not wait for our shortcomings to be un
= , covered by the republicans In the future
: but we would make an effort to purge % oui
= | selves before 1t was everlaStingly too late
!. | Now l am astonished beyond words to e%
press that so many. of our reformers shoul
a a their crowd kicks on the corruption i
&c their ranks-jump onto the eXposer instea
4 of the exposed.
e simpson Disgrace.
= Why, Mr.. Tibbles, that man Simpson
" a disgrace to any party, according to II
e own testimony. l will wager that he Is
Il republican and never voted our ticket
/ his life before he got office from us:
Wy aufS sSonS Mr core keep Re
st republicans around him to work the d
grace of our party? If they had mac mac
A. thorough examinations they might hay
t. been entitled to big fees, but you and l ar
e, everyone with a spoonful of brains know
e. that no examinations have been made e,
n all. 1t has only been holdup game fro
In start to finish and we are left at the mere
Or of what may some day turn out 9nt ,n to be ~ y
an torial about the insurance craze | thir
IN the people are all foolish to give the
their money and in this you and agr
MS with Mr.. Lichty who is fanatical on Il
IN subject of home mutual insurance comp
s. MES 1t was this extreme solcitude I
or home mutual insurance that prompted
Iichty to go too far to encourage nor
n companies While in this respect he pc
ou hans erred he erred in the side OF ri=ht
st The only place where Lichty did Wrol
ne was in accepting that suit of clothes fro
y Holland, but in that there were eXtenuatll
n circumstances. Mr.. Holland and the Lien
- family are close personal friends ana wh
- Holland got scared because ne was
Moores bond he got Samuel Lichty TO To-
up the extent of his tHollands) liaolli'
and for this friendly service presented
suit of clothes but Lichty ought not TO ma
received them. No man In public OH
a | should receive presents from any oi
NV whether they be railroad faVors or an
Now, i want a word about Meserve.
am ashamed that | ever voted FOR MI
While Cornell may not be bad man-or
n weak one-I regard MeserVe as bad OF
lust think of his whole official career.
| very first act was to allow the rotten
-. republican crowd of heelers to go on
bond and if that expose by the Pawn
county committee last fall had been ma
a month earlier in the campaign ne Wol
he have been beaten. / was perfectly ava
of his actions in the bond matter | talk
OF with Holcomb about the nature OF MeserV
be bond when he first gave 1t. but ! ala I
ire want 10 give aid and comfort to the repl
"a Leans by kicking, so l held my peace, J.
nd think OF a reformer saying that he has
Is right TO do mean things because the repl
, a iicans do. That Is just what 1t amounts
a., ! He says that railroad passes are Wroi
III but as long as republicans DO these thlr
a he will | hope he Will not conclude TO 81
the public money because the republics
-, | have done so. And notice the egotism OF
iet | fellows. Weak men might be bought w