Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-17
TRICKS AND TRICKS.


When man cheats you for the FIRST time
you are not to blame, but when he tricks
you the second time you are entitled to
This adage applies with as much force to
politics as IL does to business.-Omaha Bee.
The readers OF The Omaha Bee have been
tricked for years by the political pretensions
aud assurances OF that sheet In 1892, when
charges were made against the republican
state oflcials, The Bee defended those men
and four months later, after the people had
been "tricked" by The Bee into re-electng
them, the legislature brought impeachment
proceedings against them. The Bee tricked
the people into electing state auditor who
turned up short 100000 and a state treasurer
who turned up short $500 0O0.-World. Herald.
The Bee has no apologies TO make for
its course in 1892 or in 1889. Then as
now 1t advocated what it believed to be
for the interests of the people of Ne
braska, and it's honesty of purpose can
not successfully be impugned. Eighteen
hundred and ninety-two was a prcsiden-
tial campaign year and the state ticket,
headed by Lorenzo Crounse was com
posed of men who were generally be-
lieved to be competent and honest.
There was nothing in that campaign that
differed materially from any other. No
charges whatever were made by the op-
position press against Eugene Moore or
Joe Barley and no suspicious were en-
tertained that they would go wrong.
The only candidates upon whom a gen
eral onslaught was made by democratic
campaigners were the three nominees
for reelection to state office. The
charges against them were of a general
character instead of being specific, and
when they were positively denied by
them The Bee rs republican paper
was bound in honor to accept the denials
as true.
When the legislature convened The
Bee seconded the call for thorough in
vestigation of all the state officials and
when the true state of facts became
known it promptly urged the impeach
ment Of the delinQuents.
How about the World-Herald? 1t is q
matter of notoriety that in this instance
as in the prosecution of BARLEY, it gave
| aid and comfort to the penitentiary
ringsters by CLOSING over their crooked
deals. The current belief was that il
had been subsidized by the state house
gang and their coparceners. Through
out the entire proceedings before anG
after impeachment the organ of bogus
reform and fence for political crooks ant
rogues of all parties sang very low ant
sought as far as it dare go to create
public sentiment in favor of the jobbers
and boodlers
Later on, when Joe Bartley's embez
Element was uncovered The Bee was
foremost in demanding the vindicatiol
of the law, while the sham reform con
Germ whose chief proprietor had Dor
rowed $4,000 through BARLEY on
worthless second mortgage, and who's
chief editor was a confidential friend o
Barley, kept very quiet and covered Il
far as it dare go the tracks of the gan;
which had subsisted on Bartley's beneti
cence.
There may be tricks and tricks, bu
The Bee has never yet had occasion t.
go into collusion with treasury embe2
zlers. True it supported Henry Bolll
for city treasurer when he was believed
to be an exemplary officer, but the me
ment his delinquencies became known
published the fact and demanded hi
removal from Office and the complet
vindication Of the law. There was II
slip found in the drawer of Treasure
Bolln that bore the name of the chic
proprietor of The Bee or The Bee Pull
fishing company, as there was one beal
ing the name of the chief owner O
the World-Herald.
There are tricks and tricks in politics
but when the World-Herald attempts t
, befog the people of this community an
state by posing as an honest, unpul
| chasable champion of the people and tn
. taxpayers and as an opponent of publ
thieves and crooks it undertakes thei
intelligence.